October 22, 1999

Colleges Mull Which Digital Records to Save and Which to Delete

By FLORENCE OLSEN

University archivists and records managers are in a quandary as they work to identify what types of electronic documents they should try to save and what they can safely discard.

A poor decision could be costly, said Robert P. Spindler, the archivist at Arizona State University, speaking at a conference here this month on preserving electronic records.

"We've taken the most important litigation-defense resource we have," Mr. Spindler said, "and placed it on the Web -- the most

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