Re: Scrapping microfilm lab ??

From: Julie Grob (jgrob@UH.EDU)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 15:24:04 CST

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Date:         Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:24:04 -0600
From: Julie Grob <mailto:jgrob@UH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scrapping microfilm lab ??
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    <pre> The Northeast Document Conservation Center holds a regular seminar called
    "To Film or to Scan", which would probably address many of the issues you are concerned with. They held one in October in Albany, but you could probably contact them and find out where the next one is being held. There are also some recommended readings listed on the web site for the Albany seminar.

    http://www.nedcc.org/albany.htm

    It is defintely a good idea to educate yourself thoroughly before getting rid of a program which has "served us faithfully since 1988."

    Good luck, Julie Grob

    At 04:07 PM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
    >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/
    >

    Julie Grob Special Collections Librarian University of Houston Libraries Houston, TX 77204-2091
    (713) 743-9744 mailto:jgrob@uh.edu

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