Please join us this Thursday for the next presentation in the ASIST Panel Discussion Series:

“Storage is Cheap: Why Select?”
Thursday, September 27, 12:30-1:45pm
Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library

Storage media for digital information are extremely cheap and getting exponentially cheaper over time. The price of a terabyte of hard drive space is a few hundred dollars, and in a decade it will be less than a dollar. The cost of the expertise of well-trained information professionals, on the other hand, is quite high and likely to increase over time. So shouldn’t we stop worrying about selection and just capture and keep as much material as possible?

Hard drives are fat now. Lossy compression is so 20th century. Gimme some flacs.