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End-of-Life Care for Aging, Fragile CDs and Their Data Content | The Signal: Digital Preservation Institutions and individuals that use CDs as a storage medium are now concerned because information technologists have deemed the medium to be unsuitable for long-term use. As a result, institutions are racing to get the data off the discs as quickly and safely as possible and into a more reliable digital storage environment. http://1.usa.gov/VFdAeL Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/07/end-of-life-care-for-aging-fragile-cds-and-their-data-content/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://1.usa.gov/VFdAeL+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra