News: Digital Archives That Disappear - Inside Higher Ed
Businesses don't always make the best custodians for culture and history, part #947: "The fate of "Paper of Record," a digital archive of early newspapers with a particularly strong collection of Mexican newspapers, may be cited in the years ahead as an example of the dangers of purchase by a large entity. Paper of Record was purchased (secretly) by Google in 2006, and shortly after Google took over management of the site, late last year, the archive disappeared from view."
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