Message-Id: <mailto:199505051221.HAA06876@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 07:11:25 CDT From: John FRIEND <mailto:John.Friend@CCMAIL.ADP.WISC.EDU> Subject: Re[2]: Microfilm To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>Wow! Interesting approach! Hmmm.
>"Micorfilm should last at least 500 years. Scanned images
>are great for access, but do not guarantee long-term preservation."
>Funny, this is exactly the opposite of what I think. Microfilm is guaranteed
>to degrade but bits can be copied and replicated forever with absolutely no
>loss or degradation. I'll bet in 50 years the only people who will know what
>microfilm was will be historians and octogenarians.
>Walter Gilbert, Asst. Dir. mailto:Walter_Gilbert@umail.umd.edu
>Computer Science Center Manager: Teaching Technologies
>University of Maryland at College Park 20742-2411 (301)405-6727
I'll bet ya a couple pounds of Wisconsin's finest Kolby that you're mistaken. Everything I've read says microfilm has another 20 to 30 years of life. In fact, the trend seems to be finding the best way to combine the old with the new so odds are we'll still be kicking out the film here at the State Historical Society. Hopefully, I'll be fishin though.
John A. Friend Microfilm Lab Supervisor-SHSW 608-264-6523 email mailto:john.friend@ccmail.wisc.edu