I am very concerned about what will become of the archives. A lot of articles stored by NTIS are not easily available on the internet. Some of those articles were produced by old disbanded research offices of the U.S. Government (and they were really good articles). However, my mind cannot recall what offices they were and what papers they had produced to be able to give you a proper example.
In the mid-90's I had to travel to NIST in Virginia to repair a "pick-to-light" system for document retrieval that my company had built. All I remember is a massive basement filled with rows of pigeonhole shelves with each hole containing a document that could be removed and photocopied for the requesting agency. Considering that the library must have been continuously growing since then, getting all those documents online has to be a huge task.
