Well, I'd say England has the right idea...:) ----Original Message Follows---- From: Peter Kurilecz <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ARCHIVES] digitisation Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:44:59 -0400 The following request comes from a non-subscriber in England. Please send your responses directly to him at the following email [email protected] IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF DOCUMENTS Our Ref: SNR/DOC8 16 August 2004 Dear Colleagues We are hoping to commence a programme to digitise some of our collections of private papers in order to conserve the originals from wear and tear and to improve access for our visitors. I would therefore be most grateful if anyone who has already completed such a project could contact me to pass on their hard-earned experience, notably the pros and cons of in-house digitisation compared with outsourcing this work, the names and addresses of companies/bodies who could scan original material or microfilms for us, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that lurk for unsuspecting archivists. Many thanks With best wishes. Yours faithfully Dr Simon Robbins Archivist Department of Documents Imperial War Museum Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ 020 7416 5221 [email protected] -- Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [email protected] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [email protected] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [email protected] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[email protected]>