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
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