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/ > > 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. > > Thanks > > Jonathan > > Jonathan Franklin > Chief, Library, Archives and Research Fellowships Program > National Gallery of Canada > 380 Sussex Drive > PO Box 427, Station A > Ottawa, Ontario > K1N 9N4 > Canada > telephone (613) 990 0590 > fax (613) 990 6190 > email [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: > http://www.arlisna.org/join.html > Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]