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Re: Digitizing Records from Microfilm
At 04:21 PM 6/15/00 -0500, Susan Dehler wrote:
My concern is that we do not really have the
staff to do this properly
I suspect this is almost a given. You might want to read Moving
Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
(available from
<http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html>),
and especially the final chapter on mainstreaming digital imaging
activities, to get a sense of what you are in for. I would also
encourage you to look at Cornell's NEH report on "Digital to
Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project," available at
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/pub.htm>.
You can easily contract to have the microfilm digitized (though the level
of image quality may be questionable). Building and especially
maintaining a retrieval system will be much harder, and you should be
ready to spend much more than the filming costs.
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Peter B. Hirtle
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pbh6@cornell.edu
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
607/255-4033 (ph)
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Library
607/255-9524 (fax)
Ithaca, NY 14853
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