“Photos and autographs of past officials as well as valuable documents of the country, dating as far back as the late 1800s as well as the 1900s, currently at the Archive of the Legislature are on the verge of being destroyed, lost or unusable if they are not digitally preserved,” observed Jeffery Saydee, director of the Archive of the Legislature. Saydee said the risks are real, substantial, and imminent, and that the longer the delay, the greater the risk to the Legislature, which would cause the country a significant loss of important official documents, reputational damage, and a failure to realize potential savings of crucial and official papers. http://bit.ly/2QSowSq http://bit.ly/2QSowSq+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto 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