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Re: New Yorker (hopelessly defensive...)



A major point in the article is that volumes of newspapers are being discarded and replaced with less-than-perfect microfilm, some of which was filmed 20, 30, or 40 years ago.  Institutions back then filmed what they had, as well as they could, and didn't seek to fill gaps through borrowing from others (this is a generalization of course--some might have). Replacing a bound volume (admittedly perhaps not perfect) with microfilm without inspecting the microfilm first to see if it might warrent refilming is a mistake and is one of Baker's points.

I'd like to add that great care must be taken will all parts of a newspaper collection.  The Washington Star clipping morgue has clips not to be found in the bound volumes (only one edition was bound)--multiple editions were filmed, usually, but I'd be very cautious about relying upon any single instance--film, clips, or bound volumes, to the exclusion of the ohers.....

Matthew Gilmore, DC Public Library, dcplgem_a@yahoo.com

  Veronica Cunningham <vcunning@EMMA.TROY.NY.US> wrote:

Didn't expect to be back on this thread and I *do* want to read the entire
article but, in response to Thomas Heard:

1)In major preservation microfilming programs that are performed to ANSI
and RLG standards, the film is checked for quality of the film, and for
completeness of the film which, time consuming as it is, is a page-by-page
inspection of the film with the original on hand. It will include the
endpapers and the pre-pages, and in the case of periodicals, the covers.

2. I don't know how well scanners handle colour, but there is a scanner
developed with Cornell, Xerox and, I believe, Kodak, that will scan to
film, electronic media and produce hard copy. The resulting film is high
quality and the hard copy excellent.

When I've fully read the article, I may have further comments, but we may
have moved on by then!!

Ronnie C.

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