Monday, January 27, 2003

Library of Congress Starts Sound Registry "Close your eyes and just listen. There's President Theodore Roosevelt denouncing corporate swindles. Robert Frost reading his poetry. Buffalo Bill Cody urging war with Spain over Cuba. They are joined by 2.5 million other voices - some famous, some not - and sounds - the huffing and puffing of a steam locomotive is one - preserved at the Library of Congress. On Monday, Librarian of Congress James Billington was announcing the first 50 sounds to be entered in a National Recording Registry. It seeks to ensure even greater protection for some of the most notable songs, speeches and other utterances. The library is not the only government repository for sounds. The National Archives and Records Administration has tens of thousands of hours of Capitol Hill speeches, committee hearings and various other gatherings. (from AP)" [Library Stuff] I can't seem to get to this article at the moment and I don't find anything about this on the LOC site, but I certainly hope they're offering these sound files as MP3s or Ogg Vorbis files you can download! [The Shifted Librarian] 5:34:55 AM

Petabytes = Librarians!. So Long Megabyte, Hello Petabyte! "I haven't recently spoken about storage in this space. The David Morgenstern's story, 'What Killed the Megabytes?,' is exactly what I needed to come back to this subject.... After looking at current gigabyte devices, Morgenstern looks at terabytes. To get a terabyte today, you just need a couple of drives. He concludes. So get used to terabytes while you can. Petabytes will be the next capacity point scheduled to come down to earth. I agree with him. Consider this prediction from Adam Couture, an analyst at Gartner, reported by CIO Magazine in "What Elephant? Storage is already as big as an elephant and getting bigger" on May 15, 2002: 'The worldwide storage capacity will increase from 283,000 terabytes in 2000 to more than 5 million terabytes by 2005.' " [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends] [The Shifted Librarian] 5:32:48 AM

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