Not Fade Away ... How Robots Are Preserving Our Old Newspapers
In a Yorkshire outpost of the British Library, archivists using the latest conservation technology are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble to dust – and that’s just for starters.
Nicola Davis | July 5, 2015
...There’s plenty of work to be done. A study in 2014 found that, on average, only 17% of collections in heritage institutions across Europe has been digitised in some form.
<more at http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/05/british-library-digitising-newspapers-boston-spa; related link: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/09/start/a-new-place-for-very-old-news (British Library enlists robots for new low oxygen newspaper archive) ["Once the collection moves in 2014, humans will be locked out and requested papers will be delivered by a robotic shelving system."]>
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