Re: The Finite String


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dylan Sung wrote:

Why don't you scan them and save them on to disk, and throw away the
originals if your library don't want them... At least you'll still have a
copy if you ever need to refer to them again.

That's the lovely attitude of the New York Public Library.

They put everything on microfilm and discard the originals, and the
microfilms are all but unusable. Not to mention scratched.

I needed something from *Jewish Quarterly Review* for 1937 and was
handed a reel with about 8 volumes on it. You know how long it took just
to find the 1937 volume??

Sorry about my late reply, but, I did say disk, not microfilm/microfiche and
yes, I have used them before at my library to search for books in and out of
print and music.

For microfilm, I agree that you have to search sequentially through the
whole volume before you reach what you're after.

For disk media, you can make multiple copies as back up, and store the rest
away and use one until whatever. I've scanned some of my stuff and saved
them onto disk. It's easy to create an index. In dos prompt you type

dir > filenames.txt

and all the file names are sent into a file called filenames.txt. The you
edit the filename.txt file to create HTML hyperlinks with the aim of using
your internet browser as a means of accessing and seeing the files, and
change the name of the file to index.html. Now you have a clickable index of
files in the directory you've saved your scans in. If you have time to go
through and index the subject matter, it's just a matter of editing the
index.html with whatever comment you wish to put, for example the section
heading which appears in that particular scan. The internet browser also has
a search tool which allows you to enter text and scan your index.html page
for any significant comment which you may have added. Like any index, its
only limited by what has been listed.

The only problem you face is when your media becomes obselete. For instance,
I don't use my zip drive anymore, as I can do it more easily via recordable
CD ROM and there's more space on an disk. However, some people have
suggested that old harddrives can be formatted and reused as storage media,
by buying an external casing for it, and using it as a slave drive. It's
something I am thinking of doing to the hard drive on my old laptop. No
point letting 20 gigabytes of storage go to waste...

Dyl.


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