{"id":2049,"date":"2018-07-10T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:00:34","slug":"the-slow-march-towards-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2018\/07\/the-slow-march-towards-the-digital-age","title":{"rendered":"The slow march towards the digital age&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2050\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0805-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The slow march towards the digital age&#8230;\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Our colleagues in the Classics Library sent us an interesting housing project.\u00a0 The goal, to secure and keep together a textbook and accompanying electronic content.<br \/>\nThe additional electronic content was not in the form of a URL for on-line supplements, nor a DVD, but a small shiny USB drive.\u00a0 The drive was originally attached it to the book at <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2051 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0806-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The slow march towards the digital age&#8230;\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>the end of a long silky bookmark adhered to the text block.\u00a0 A neat idea, but the drive was almost impossible to use attached to the anchor of the heavy book.<br \/>\nAh, the mashup of the old and new!<br \/>\nOur solution was to make a simple corrugated enclosure with a volara foam compartment and a photographic surrogate on the end of the bookmark.\u00a0 The surrogate directs users to the compartment holding the USB port.\u00a0 Additionally, a message in the item record alerts library workers to \u201ccheck for one USB device\u201d.<br \/>\nTo me the pleasure of this item is that it illustrates so clearly the tension between the easy functionality of the book and the limits of its fixed form. It also speaks to how slow the march towards the digital age feels &#8211; illustrating a change in technology without much of an improvement, such as the move from DVD to USB storage.<br \/>\n[And here is where I lament that I STILL don&#8217;t have a hovercraft or a robot maid.]<br \/>\nThough many of us have vowed to get out of the prediction game, let me predict in 10 years our students will marvel at this USB device the way they do now at floppy disks and zip drives.<br \/>\nLONG LIVE THE BOOK!<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2052\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0809-e1531250674727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2052\" class=\"wp-image-2052 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0809-e1531250674727-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The slow march towards the digital age&#8230;\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enclosure by Jessica Ebert, conservation technician<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Holly Prochaska (UCL) &#8212;- Preservation Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues in the Classics Library sent us an interesting housing project.\u00a0 The goal, to secure and keep together a textbook and accompanying electronic content. 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