On 5/13/22 22:32, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Just a thank you for bringing it up. It may yields some new ideas or rethink. I'm one that values this old material and do lament the chopping up of the originals to get things scanned. Maybe magazines that would wear and fade but I've seen things destroyed that should not necessarily been done.
Before I knew better, in the first year I was involved in VCF, I assisted in an effort to scan some remarkable Burroughs manuals- removing the pages from the most amazing bindings, which were trashed, and sending the beautiful pages to archive.org. Archive.org is awsome, and the material belongs there, but there had to be a better way for this particular set.
Lets keep talking about these issues.
The goals of preserving the content vs. preserving the book are usually at odds. It's not an easy judgment call to make. We have a large but dormant (due to lack of volunteers) scanning operation at LSSM. The best I've been able to come up with is that it's ok to destroy a book in order to preserve the content if other copies can be found. But that doesn't seem to make it any easier. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA