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In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
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Archives do hold information not duplicated elsewhere
Submitted by Matthew Snyder (not verified) on November 15, 2010 - 10:22am.
"It may no longer even be true that archives 'hold singular information not duplicated elsewhere.'"
Um, no, that is still true. Most archives and manuscripts repositories contain undigitized papers with content that can be found NOWHERE else but in those repositories. Yes, digitization projects are going forward, but not for all collections (or even for all portions of the collections that are). It turns out that digitization and metadata compilation is quite costly and choices need to be made: WHICH collections get digitized and become searchable, which PARTS of collections get digitized?
