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 19th 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
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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