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Archiving email at the British Library

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The British Library has begun to collect email of authors and scientists.

It has already acquired emails written by Hughes, and has created a list of important people whose computer files it would like to collect, including J.K. Rowling, A.S. Byatt, Alastair Campbell and Stephen Hawking. Jeremy John, who has set up the library’s first digital archive, is appealing to writers and scientists to ask them to store their correspondence in a way that will allow future generations to see their work. [NEWS.com.au | British library starts email archive (October 12, 2004)]
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