[Personal_archives] New Yorker article on Susan Sontag's Archives at UCLA

[Rodney Carter]

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, the New Yorker published an article discussing Susan Sontag's
archives at UCLA which discusses the paper records as well as the digital
files in the fonds (and the problems faced for preserving the latter).

As with the Rushdie archives at Emory, it looks like UCLA may be emulating
the computers in the reading room for users to access the files "as Sontag
would have seen it".

It also briefly discusses the ethical considerations of reading other
people's mail - and subjecting their files to detailed, computer-assisted
analysis.

A nice little read for a Friday.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/01/in-the-sontag-archives.html

All the best,
Rodney
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