RE: What is "introduction"?
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] What is "introduction"?
- From: C* H*
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:40:56 -0500
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NO I do not agree with you at all on this.
The catalogs are NOT produced as archival pieces as you imply (although some
people save them for this valid and useful purpose).
They are simply produced as marketing pieces which become out of date for
the intended retailing purpose after a certain period.
Example: Try and request 1991 Schreiners catalog... if you already have one
then try and order from it. The intent is exactly what you indicate...to
make it unavailable for use. It has no original functional purpose to them
after a certain point and therefore is no longer made available. In this
regard there is not any discernable difference between a discontinued
website catalog and a discontinued paper catalog. The world at large is just
a little more used to the paper versions of such items and saving them. It
is solely up to an individual or a specific organization to decide whether
or not to save an item for future use or not.
Chris H.
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> From: HIPSource@aol.com [H*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:04
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [iris-talk] What is "introduction"?
>
>
> I'd say an annual catalog which is written to and then later
> pulled from a
> website should to be considered less permanent for documentation and
> reference purposes than a hard copy catalog. Certainly the intent
> of someone
> who issues such a catalog and then removes it is not to make the catalog
> available for future use.
>
> I do not see that an individual's independent option to discard a
> hard copy,
> or or any other copy, is directly relevant to the issue at hand,
> but I will
> stipulate that anything can happen to original hard copies and
> all things are
> dust in the end, which is why we have archivists and conservators and why
> material is copied when it deteriorates physically so it can
> continue to be
> part of the record. But that is entirely different from capturing and
> storing a transient web document in an attempt to circumvent its intended
> disappearance.
>
> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
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