National Archives Can't Keep Up, "New Yorker" Explains
Staff -- Library Journal, 3/8/1999
As Slate magazine summarizes Alexander Stille's article in the current New Yorker: "A writer finds head-spinning confusion at the National Archives, where librarians are straining to keep up with the antiquatedness of old technologies and the information sprawl caused by new ones. For example, a 1989 court case requires all federal agencies to archive their computer files and E-mails, but it took the Archives over two years just to copy the records of the Reagan White House. And even those records 'are gibberish as they currently stand,' sighs one former Archives librarian."
