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State archivist warns microfilm supply disappearing, urges move to electronic preservation
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Ken Williams, director of the State Archives and Records Service, told the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee that microfilm supplies are disappearing and the agency is preparing to shift preservation work to electronic systems.
Ken Williams, director of the State Archives and Records Service, told the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee that the state is transitioning away from microfilm because suppliers are vanishing and the archives is moving to electronic preservation.
"We are quickly coming to the end of life for microfilm," Williams said, adding that the agency is down to a single vendor for film and is preparing a planned transition "to the electronic world."
The archives provides records-management and archival standards for state and local government and runs a records center in Clearfield at the Freeport Center that Williams said holds about 185,000 cubic feet of records. The permanent archives building is located…
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