I have seen this in Hawaii, including several art groups I belong to and
the university where I work. I am the archivist for an art group and print
out the e-invitations for our permanent records. Records management and
archives professions are wrestling with preservation of electronic
records - long, complicated story. So far, the best options for longevity
are to print out, film, or keep migrating electronic files to new
software/hardware every 5 years or so.  Ellen Chapman


On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Jonathan Franklin wrote:

> This is an interesting article about the disappearance of printed exhibition invitation cards in favour of electronic mailings:
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/gallery-card-as-relic/
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> Online comment number 7 refers to the archival value of these printed ephemera as collected by archives and libraries. We have collected the printed cards for a long time and are now concerned about archiving the electronic ones. Has anyone developed any neat solutions for the latter problem? May be worth sharing with the list.
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> Thanks
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> Jonathan
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