Duke University now offers iPhone apps to access Duke University Library digital image collections. Here is the link. Read all about it!
http://tinyurl.com/n9nue7
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- Paul Dale Anderson
- Author of Claw Hammer, Daddy's Home, Abandoned, Deviants, The Devil Made Me Do It, The Instruments of Death series, The Winds series, and other novels and short stories. I write horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and thrillers. Active member of HWA, SFWA, and ITW. Retired Librarian @ Rockford Public Library and retired Rock Valley College instructor
Paul,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to this article. It makes me wonder, though, whether or not some libraries' attempt to "broaden" access are forgetting about those who do not have smartphones and do not now, and perhaps never will, access digital content. I hope that Duke's libraries do not discontinue their preservation and access efforts on the tangible items.
I share your concerns. Students today, however, are expecdted to have access to technology. Those with access succeed, those without fall by the wayside. How can anyone attend college or university today and not have a 3G cell phone and a laptop with wi-fi capability?
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, writers today are expected to have access to a computer and high-speed internet/e-mail. I know of very few publsihers who still accept paper submissions. This digitization of manuscripts, by the way, presents preservation problems for library archives that accept collections of manuscripts and correspondence on specific writers, and significant problems for lierary scholars who seek to document the changes writers make in a manuscript before publication.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good, important point. Some archives are on the ball as far as being able to accept digital manuscripts of multiple versions; others are not. Those that are still can "appraise" the works and have the potential to alter the record so to speak by not preserving all versions. Educating authors about records management - how they preserve their writings and correspondence - how many versions, which versions, in which format - will become more important now that digital manuscripts are the norm.
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