How has IT changed the materials with which librarians and archivists work?

• Digital in form, including PDF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, HTML, XML, etc.

• Interlinked (or hyperlinked) via traversable connections to other documents and resources

• Increasing diverse content, moving beyond text-only to include audio and video components datasets, continuous updates

• Interactive

• Longitudinally less stable and therefore more susceptible to loss