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Re: Museums and documents



Of course, then you have to spend money to preserve/migrate the digital
image over time . . . .

Digitization may not always be the most effective/efficient choice.

At 07:44 AM 3/3/00 -0800, Debra Wharton Pearce wrote:
Some archivists don't seem to know the difference between documents and
artifacts either.  A lot of money has been spent to preserve the original
look of old ledger bindings that could have been spent to digitize the
documents and information they contain.

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