Too Late Now: Libraries’ Intertwined Challenges of Newspaper Morgues, Microfilm, and Digitization
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2150-668X,1529-6407
DOI: 10.5860/rbm.16.2.448