Here’s a remark­able claim:

“Digital sub­scrip­tions were sup­posed to replace micro­film, but American libraries, which knew we were racing toward reces­sion years before the actual global crisis came, stopped being able to pay for dig­ital news­paper and mag­a­zine descrip­tions nearly a decade ago. Many also (even fancy, famous ones) can no longer collect—or can only col­lect in a lim­ited fashion. Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every news­paper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, but can access only a com­par­a­tive handful of papers cov­ering the elec­tion of Barack Obama.”

Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture — zeldman​.com

Can that be true?