Re: "digital copies won't survive the collapse of our technological civilisation."
Bit more than bibles there.. Quite a bit more, actually.
It's not generally realised, but a lot of the stuff we know about what happened in history (and isn't propaganda) does not come from a "historian" being present, or taking notes from survivors journalist-style. We know because of the godawful rows about who gets to pay the bills that got Religiously preserved by Accountancy and Legal.
And about half the library is that kind of "boring" stuff that will become accessible to researchers that know it's in there somewhere, but don't have the neccessary accreditation.
Not that it isn't a good idea to not let everyone paw fragile medieval documents, but this digitization project makes things a lot more accessible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
