Re: Scrapping microfilm lab ??

From: Keith Morgan (kamorgan@UNITY.NCSU.EDU)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 15:07:18 CST

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Date:         Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:07:18 -0500
From: Keith Morgan <mailto:kamorgan@UNITY.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scrapping microfilm lab ??
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    <pre> on 11/13/00 3:47 PM, Yaakov Rosenes at mailto:yaakovr@YAHOO.COM wrote:

    > Dear List members - I am resending this query which
    > didn't seem to make the list last month
    >
    > I'd like to ask you advice and comments about
    > scrapping our microfilm Lab has which
    > served us faithfully since 1988 for preserving rare
    > bound Hebrew books.

    My first compelling reason to not do this is the lack of agreement on standards for digital preservation. You may be able to read that electronic image or text now, but what about in the future? If your digital image is unreadable then you would have to go back to the originals and rescanning originals always puts them at risk. There are many stories about organizations converting digital images or text to microfilm because of the uncertainty of preservation issues of digital surrogates.

    Keith Morgan
    ----- Keith Morgan - Digital Library Initiatives North Carolina State University Libraries Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 Phone: 919.515.4221 mailto:Keith_Morgan@ncsu.edu http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/

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