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Why Netflix sends 'Orange is the New Black' to the Library of Congress on videotape | The Verge After companies shut down and collectors lose interest, the Library of Congress is supposed to keep our cultural history intact. But digital media has turned our understanding of preservation on its head. It’s no longer enough to just get "a copy" of something: an ebook can be set to self-destruct <http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/9/5688146/the-fight-to-save-endangered-ebooks>, an MMO can be nothing without the people who play it <http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441866/eve-offline-how-do-you-archive-a-universe>, and a streaming video can have a million digital copies and no physical ones. When *Buzzfeed* journalist Joseph Bernstein profiled <http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/meet-the-men-trying-to-immortalize-video-games> the Library of Congress’ video game collection, he included a tantalizing reference to how new media and traditional archival can collide: http://bit.ly/1paSGS2 Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/29/7101597/why-netflix-sends-orange-is-the-new-black-to-the-library-of-congress See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1paSGS2+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]