Video Transcripts
David Kirsch assistant professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
"Kids at camp are now no longer writing letters home to their families, they’re sending e-mails, they’re sending pictures, v -blogs, all sorts of new forms of communication. My parents saved my camp letters. How are we going to save our kids' camp letters, or their digital equivalents. How are we going to do that?"
Abby Smith, consultant to the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program
"Digital preservation is a very big problem, and in a real sense it is everybody’s problem because if we don’t succeed, it is information that is valuable to everybody which is going to be lost."
American Voices
Aaron Wissner, high school math and science teacher, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"I think it’s important that blogs be preserved because that really gives a reflection of what people are thinking and feeling now, it’s a first source, a first person source, so as a raw source like that it will be important for researchers to look back on."
Steve Landry, California
"Just visiting D.C. and walking through the Library of Congress it was the mindset of people from hundreds of years ago that is preserved, most of it for us today so that’s even helping me to understand that I need to do the same thing for my family."
David Kirsch assistant professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
"Part of the reason I’m very excited to be involved with the Library in these activities is because I think together we are developing the tools, the context, the infrastructure to allow me to save the things that I care about."