[IRCA] QSLs again...

["David Hochfelder" <xxmugginsxx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Griffith wrote:  "Ideally the best form of preservation would be one that includes a scan
that is freely available for viewing on line. That way they could be
viewed by the masses at will without the necessity to travel."

Brief comments:  1.  The best form of preservation is placing
them in archival acid-free folders and boxes and storing them at about
68 degrees and low humidity.  2.  Scanning them is a kind of
"publishing," and would make them freely available, but would do
nothing to ensure preservation of the originals.  Except that
handling in any way is bad from a preservation standpoint, so if scans
reduced handling, that would improve preservation.  3. 
Libraries don't have the money to scan everything they own. 
4.  Even if UMD had an aggressive digital publishing program,
there are probably far more significant collections that should be
scanned and placed online way ahead of QSLs.  

Dave
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