Frankland and his colleagues flipped this idea in their experiment, wanting to see how changing levels of neurogenesis affected a memory already in storage.
"There are already better storage solutions in development that show drastically improved biochemistry parameters," he said.
Most of the collection is already in storage; next week, the Pierpont Morgan Library, one of New York's best-loved museums, will close for a $100 million renovation.
Some bioethicists and lawyers want legislation requiring researchers to obtain consent before conducting research on any tissues, including those already in storage.
Half of the library's research collection is already in storage, he said, and most major research libraries have off-site locations.
At least 1,500 gallons of tequila spilled into the Louisville sewer system after a worker tried to unload it from a truck into an already full storage tank at a distillery, officials said.
Mr. Nasaw also questioned the library's promise that off-site volumes would be available in 24 hours, since, he said, there are currently delays with those already in storage.
And a bit, spread over several pages, about the actor Joseph Fiennes's behaving like a twerp on a film set that Mr. Wills visited is a waste of this book's already limited storage capacity.
Amazon already sells storage and computing power on demand over the Internet.
We are seeing explosive changes already: massive storage and bandwidth growth, and exponential expansion in the volume of available information.
