Baylor University: “So We Can Throw These Out Now, Right?”: “What We Learned From Microfilming Newspapers and How It Shapes Our Digitization Strategy

From The Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Blog:

Is digitization an important undertaking for libraries, museums, and archives of all sizes? Undeniably.

Should we take steps to ensure our cultural heritage – digital and physical – is properly stored, displayed, and accessed? Without a doubt.

Does either of those facts mean it’s safe to discard a decade’s worth of 19^th century American newspapers once they’ve been scanned, as happened with microfilmed newspapers in the 1990s?

If anyone’s reading this post in 3012, do me a favor: look me up and let me know.

Read the Complete Blog Post by Eric Ames, Curator of Digital Collections for Baylor University Libraries