Gertz, Janet. Columbia University Libraries. "Digitization of Maps and Other Oversize Documents," pp 123-126, Handbook For Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover: Northeast Documentation Conservation Center, 2000

Kenney, Anne R. "Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project, 1994-1996, Final Report to the National Endowment for the Humanities, PS-20781-94," Also see other publications about the methodology used by the Cornell University Department of Preservation and Conservation.

University of Virginia Library Electronic Tex Center. The Electronic Text Center: On-line Helpsheets. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/sgmlscan.html

Key quality and cost decisions for digitized text. Stephen Chapman, Harvard University Library. Handbook For Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover: Northeast Documentation Conservation Center, 2000 p. 108-110.

NEWSPAPERS
Mühlberger, Günter. "Digitisation of Newspaper Clippings: The LAURIN Project" RLG DigiNews 3(6) (December 15, 1999)
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-6.html#feature). -
Much of the most practical digital library developments are coming from Europe, and a case in point is the project described in this report. The LAURIN project (http://laurin.uibk.ac.at/) of the European Commission (launched in 1998) brings together seventeen partners from seven European countries to develop an infrastructure to support the digitization and management of newspaper clippings. One of the outcomes of the project has been the development of libClip, a software application that semi-automates the process of digizitizing a particular clipping, analyzing the article layout, recognizing the characters on the page (OCR), and metadata capture. The development of this software dramatically increases the efficiency of this type of procedure. They promise that a full trial version of the software will be available at their web site by the time this issue of Current Cites is published. - Review by Roy Tennant

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Graham, Peter S. "New Roles for Special Collections on the Network"
College & Research Libraries 59(3) (May 1998): 232-239. In an increasingly digitized world, where do special collections fit in? After all, a special collection is, by definition a collection of artifacts whereas everything on the Net is electronic. Peter Graham argues that on the one hand special collection librarians can create surrogates of their holdings by digitizing collections. On the other hand, the added value of books and other printed documents as physical objects means that special collections will continue to play a role in academic research. MP

ARCHIVES
Olsen, Florence. "Archivists Struggle to Preserve Crucial Records as
Paper Gives Way to Pixels" Chronicle of Higher Education 45(9) (October 22, 1999): A63. This article provides a good summary of the dilemma facing archivists, who want to preserve information for its value as primary material. The ephemeral nature of digital information poses a serious problem over the long term, but that's not news. The news is that archivists and information technology managers may have discovered that they both exist in the same world and have related problems and solutions to share. One can only hope that long term partnerships between preservationists and technologists will yield some solutions before the ephemera is marooned in outmoded operating systems, or other subdirectories in the multi-platform dust bin of history. TH

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