[PADG:2170] Permanence of web information

["S. Tyra Grant" <stgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral; Electronic Archivists Are 
Playing Catch-Up in Trying to Keep Documents From Landing in History's Dustbin"

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8730-2003Nov23.html>
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"'I think of it like the library burning in Alexandria,' Dellavalle said, 
referring to the 48 B.C. sacking of the ancient world's greatest repository 
of knowledge. 'We've had all these hundreds of years of stuff available by 
interlibrary loan, but now things just a few years old are disappearing 
right under our noses really quickly.'"