An excellent video of how data is being lost through obsolescence (and what libraries are doing to preserve it)

From CBS' 'Sunday Morning' programme:

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When I was working on my thesis, I ran up against this in that UK has an excellent collection of early scientific treatises...on microcard (think microfiche on white paper cards). They had a reader, but the closest printer was at Vanderbilt. I wound up having to interlibrary loan microfilm, which could be printed, to get the information I needed.

Thanks to Bibliofuture of LISNews for the tip.