Kevin Hawkins writes

> Digital humanities centers have been dealing with these questions as
> they've accumulated projects, and sometimes they have dumped them on
> libraries to try to preserve.

  "dumped" maybe but I would still try to see this as an opportunity
  for libraries to move into a growing activity.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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