tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post7489321010988653234..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Dick Eastman Comments -- Good JobJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-87030910137074147942012-06-18T21:29:14.523-07:002012-06-18T21:29:14.523-07:00As a librarian in a public library, it is so dishe...As a librarian in a public library, it is so disheartening to have to discuss over and over again the importance of books in a multimedia age. Not everyone can afford an ereader or a tablet and not everyone has internet connection. Also, national organizations have a greater chance of being funded for digitizing. Federal records have a greater chance of being digitized due to mass appeal. State, regional, and local resources do not fare well in regards to digitizing. The funds are just no there. To look at most state, regional, and local records, it still requires a book through a trip to the library, inner-library loan, microfilm, or manuscripts. E-books and digitized records are used to compliment records, not replace them. For special collections, digital images provide an added layer of preservation so the originals are not handled daily. For society in general, it is not a question of either digitial or the book. Many realize that to find relevant information using all types of media is the most helpful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10642814448727104150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-76799981057523363532012-06-18T17:58:01.612-07:002012-06-18T17:58:01.612-07:00For those of us without good access to fast intern...For those of us without good access to fast internet/computer service, digitization is of dubious benefit. Consider those who barely have reliable electricity, if any at all.<br /><br />It is so much faster to look at a hard-copy book index than to wait 20 to 40 minutes for a digital page to load. And the digital process is still subject to error; so many index links are not even to the right image.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-41125266728456447232012-06-18T08:00:56.647-07:002012-06-18T08:00:56.647-07:00As someone who scans books for a living I totally ...As someone who scans books for a living I totally disagree.<br /><br />First it is a very small step between cutting the spines off books prior to digitising and cutting the spines off books before disposal. George Orwell could have suggested that in his novel 1984.<br /><br />Digitising has its place but that place is not to repalce books but to augement them, I know of a number of banks who digitised their records in the 1990s only to have the digitised records microfilmed in the naughties when the discovered digitised archives do not work.<br /><br />They are to easily corrupted, changed and need regular updates and resources to access them.<br /><br />Incidentally we at Anguline Research Archives never cut the spines off books we scan.<br />Cheers<br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661609230878792638noreply@blogger.com