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In article <[log in to unmask]>, James Cummings <[log in to unmask]> writes >Roger Pearse wrote: >> In article <[log in to unmask]>, James >> Cummings <[log in to unmask]> writes >> >>>However, I don't think that the libraries would agree that they are not losing >>>any money. >> I was quoted 8,000 GBP for the British Library to photograph 3 >> manuscripts.... > >Making them free, available and easily >accessed by scholars is not in the libraries best (financial) interests. Agreed. But we need to get past this short-sighted selfishness. I suggest that we keep bombarding them with requests to photograph. >There are some good ideas here, but without a leading institution >(like the British Library) doing something like this, I think it would >be unusual to find other libraries doing this. An example of an >early attempt to make images available can be seen at >http://image.ox.ac.uk/ (The images now aren't of the hi-res that >people now expect, nor of consistent quality.) But the money doesn't >exist to continue it. Nor will it ever. We need reader photography, and that means lobbying libraries and their boards. "Have you pestered your local library chairman today?" <smile> All the best, Roger Pearse The Tertullian Project (tertullian.org) Additional Fathers online in English (tertullian.org/fathers) QuickLatin (quicklatin.com) Promoting interest in Tertullian studies <><