Pitfalls of digitizing old documents

[David Lewis]

Similarly, if you do a search for books at the University of Oregon website, or even through Worldcat or Summit, only about 40%-70% (depending on subject) of the available books at the library are entered into the indexing system. So many of the books are only available through an in-person search of the library. The Library is now making decisions as to which books to get rid of based upon use. So many of these unused and unindexed books will go unnoticed for many years. They are also unavailable for interlibrary use. I wonder if this same situation exists in other research libraries? Likely. 


David G Lewis, MA PhD ABD
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:28:29 -0700, Leanne Riding <riding at TIMETEMPLE.COM> wrote:
> The documents linked from my website are all books, most of which could 
> be available in hard copy in some library or another. But as the article 
> suggests, with an online version available it's doubtful that the 
> library books leave the shelves very often. And what's linked on my site 
> doesn’t even begin to approach what could be accessed in various 
> archives, leaving the impression that some material does not exist. I 
> don’t have any links to examples of personal letters for instance.
> 
> Leanne
> 
> Dave Robertson wrote:
> > In today's NY Times.  Makes me think about the range of Jargon-related 
> > archival materials, of course.  --  Dave R.
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