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Re: Let them eat cake



I couldn't agree more, and to your list I'd add: 1) who do researchers turn
to when files are mislabeled; 2) where *do* I get one of those computers
with artificial intelligence that can suggest not-so-obvious leads, etc.;
and 3) who's going to pay for it??  I know, that last one's a repeat, but I
work at a non-profit.

Guess they're right when they say that satirical writing is more difficult
than it looks. Now where did I leave my Jonathan Swift anthology?  Oh, and
thanks for the "welcome"!

JVM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DSokolow@nshs.edu [SMTP:DSokolow@nshs.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:31 PM
> To:   JMoy@NEWARKMUSEUM.ORG; ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      RE: Let them eat cake
>
> True, but your begged question has a decent answer, or set of answers:
>
> 1) who's paying for it?  2) who's going to take the time to insure the
> scans
> are accurate? 3) Is there any cost benefit to all the scanning? 4) who's
> going to insure all the files are maintained from one computer generation
> to
> the next? 5)copyright, copyright, copyright
>
> That ol' "digitize the works" proposal comes at us all the time, and
> whoever
> suggests it clearly has no concept of what that actually means.  Generally
> there's not enough use (of each particular item, anyway) to merit the
> conversion costs.   (But we've been over this particular can of worms
> enough
> in the past, so...)
>
> DS
>
> PS Welcome to the de-lurked community
>
> ______________________________________
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>
>
>
> Ultimately, I think a blanket 'wait three weeks' message only begs the
> question, "why not hire a temp to scan everything into the computer and
> let
> researchers find it themselves?" I have no problem responding to
> undeveloped
> questions with, "you really need to visit us in person to uncover that
> information." I'd prefer to be a crazed and overworked information
> professional than an unemployed smarty-pants  ;)

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