Mission Creep

Here in the True Archives world, we know who the "creeps" are that seem to be gaining in power every day; the dreaded Information Scientists. First they came to libraries with their MARC records and their automated catalogs. "Don't worry," they soothingly hissed, "This will just make finding books so much easier for your patrons." But then finding the book itself was no longer the goal. Once the purpose of the computer morphed into finding pixels instead of the codex, the book became an obstacle to be removed. Only the heroic archivist can see through their nefarious plan to eliminate print and paper, and react by expanding repositories to accommodate the book as well as documents. But what if archivists fall asleep at the switch? What if they do not heed the call? Will they awake twenty years from now into a bizarre world of screen-obsessed skim readers? Impossible, you say?????