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# Paper platforms
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/paper-platforms/
- Published: 2007-03-14T23:19:53.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:36:13.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, Collections, Institutions

From BuzzMachine:

> Yesterday, Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the [Guardian](https://www.guardian.co.uk/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), told the staff of his newspaper that now “all journalists work for the digital platform” and that they should regard “its demands as preeminent.” \[[BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » ‘The web is preeminent’](https://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/03/07/the-web-is-preeminent/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Folks will notice that I occasionally quote from the Guardian here. This is for a couple of reasons, but first among them is that it has really done more than most papers to move fully into a web environment. This is through a variety of mechanisms.  
The ‘digital platform’ is ‘preeminent’. The Guardian will be a “24 hour, web-first newspaper”. However there are other platforms, including paper.  
A parallel is sometimes made between libraries and newspapers in terms of some of the pressures involved in operating in a network environment. I have not seen many statements like this is a library environment though. In this context I was interested to read a [paper](https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/665?ref=lorcandempsey.net) by David W Lewis, Dean of Libraries at IUPUI, arguing that we should “complete the migration from print to electronic collections” and “retire legacy print collections”.  
BuzzMachine reference via [John Naughton](https://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2007/03/15/3794?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
David W Lewis reference via [ACRLog](https://acrlblog.org/2007/03/12/exploring-models-for-academic-libraries/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).