I would like to usde the list to elicit the views of other offices who
both allow self-service digital photography from microfilm readers in the
searchroom, and those who do not.
At Lancashire, when we piloted self-service digital photography, we
decidede then not to allow readers to take "screen shots" with their own
cameras from the readers. However, we are now being asked by readers to
allow this, claiming that they can get good quality results which they can
manipulate yto allow them to read the image more easily than they can on
the reader.
We can see no obvious legal or conservation reason to maintain our current
position ( except possibly on microfilms of records held elsewhere) and, I
would appreciate the views of other supporting either point of view.
Bruce Jackson
Lancashire Record Office
12 June 2008
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