Microfilm and digitization as choices in preservation

Microfilm , Paper , and OCR : Issues in Newspaper Digitization

by Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert are both at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Mr. Arlitsch (kenning.arlitsch© library.utah.edu 295 S. 1500 East, Room 463, Salt Lake City, UT84112) is Head of Information Technology, and Mr. Herbert (John. [email protected] 295 S. 1500 East, Room 418, Salt Lake City, UT 84112) is Program Director Ut...

Conservation, Preservation, and Digitization

Considerable attention has been focused recently on the problems of conservation and preservation of library materials. Particularly daunting are the scale of the problems and the enormous ongoing investment that will be required to address them. Currently proposed approaches include extensive microfilming of material, deacidification, and other repair measures. It is proposed that digital tech...

Human-Readable Preservation of Digital Images to Microfilm

The predominant way of preserving digital images is in their current form. Doing so for the long term, however, will require format migration to avoid the problem of hardware and software obsolescence. An alternative approach is to record digital image information on media with recognized longevity, in a human-readable format. As an investigation of practical archiving in this way, we demonstra...

Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books

Digitization as a Means of Preservation of Manuscripts: Case study of Osmania University Library

This paper presents digitization as a means of preservation of manuscripts. It discusses the hard ware and soft ware available for digitization. A complete overview of digitization process has also been explained.