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young library conservator.
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Thanks for the FotB link from
Ike Log
disappearing growth sector?
“The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 1018 bytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .003% of the total. Magnetic storage is by far the largest medium for storing information and is the most rapidly growing, with shipped hard drive capacity doubling every year.
Magnetic storage is rapidly becoming the universal medium for information storage.”
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return of the Book Drop
The
Book Drop vending machine is back in business with an exciting, new assortment. In addition to book craft kits there are now signed copies of publications by Iowa authors, Friends of the Libraries greeting cards, UICB book art class productions and handmade paper swatch books of prairie flower sents.We are also furbishing our second machine which will be used for vending Paper E-Books. Paper E-Books are 11 x 17 folded templates with instructions for producing copier ready booklets which will be vended in turn. Any UI student can participate.