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
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National Gallery of
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