The Library 2000 project

# Library 2000

Jerry Saltzer takes a look at what technology will be available in ten year's time, and how this will change library systems. The Library 2000 project will not only aim to start in 2000, but to evolve every time the technology changes by an order of magnitude. This is seriously "persistent storage", when the persistence of the data exceeds the design life of the hardware and software. This poses some interesting problems. The L2k propectus outlines four areas: