> What it may imply is that microfilm is obsolescent or even obsolete as a > format for data archiving and transmittal. Some people are finding that > film reader-printers are just not available. > > Should the LSA digitize all the films in the Library? Nice idea. > Requires quite a bit of (volunteer?) time by someone. Then what? Sell > them on CD or by file download? May run into objections from the > libraries that own the original publications and could be damaging to > publishing houses like Minkoff that sell facsimiles. I doubt that. Minkoff mainly sells facsimilia of books that have nothing to do with lute or music. Most Mss for baroque lute have already been digitized and are circulating nicely. RT
> > Other suggestions? > Daniel Heiman To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
