Relics of Film and Paper Retain Their Grip Even in a Digital Era

NYTimes.com – “If I have my sister, San Francisco has Rick Prelinger, one of the country’s premier archivists and an outspoken advocate of open access to information. Mr. Prelinger is the founder of the Prelinger Archives, a celebrated collection of “ephemeral film” — industrial, educational, amateur and other film and video footage. The Library of Congress acquired the bulk of the archive in 2002, but Mr. Prelinger continues to collect footage, with a focus on home movies. With his wife, Megan Shaw Prelinger, he also runs the Prelinger Library in San Francisco — an eclectic collection of out-of-print books, periodicals, government publications and other printed matter.”