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Re: Duplication services- digital versus photocopies
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Trudy Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:48 -0400
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You may have percent of clientele who do have digital cameras but if their cell phones do would that work?? They could shoot and email the pic to themselves- assuming they do have email.


Trudy M. Phillips
File Management, LLC
"Bringing Order Out of Chaos"
8440 Lanewood Circle
Leeds AL 35094
Office: 205-699-8571, Fax: 205-699-3278
www.filemanagement.com


-----Original Message-----
From: WILLIAM W LEFEVRE <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:22 am
Subject: Duplication services- digital versus photocopies



Dear All:

Last year the Reuther Library instituted policies and procedures for patrons to 
use digital cameras to capture images of documents in our Reading Room.  We 
supply the media cards, which the patrons return at the end of the day.  When 
the media cards come back, we run a droplet in photoshop that resizes the 
images, sets the DPI and adds a watermark.  Then we burn to a disk or transfer 
to a flash drive.  At the same time, we offer traditional photocopying services.

I'm toying with the idea of making digital images our preferred method of 
delivery and asking patrons to please bring cameras with them- and making 
photocopying the secondary (last resort) method of reproduction.

The question- Pros and Cons to doing this?  And has anyone gone this route 
before?

Some pros I see:

Digital frees up staff; lessens toner, paper, maintenance costs; less intrusive 
on the original records themselves (preservation issues).

Cons???

William

William LeFevre, CA, CRM
Reference Archivist, Walter P. Reuther Library
Interdisciplinary Faculty, Library & Information Science Program
Wayne State University
5401 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
313.577.2789 (Voice)
313.577.4300 (FAX)
website: www.reuther.wayne.edu

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