Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library (author)
Format:
Manual
Publication Date:
1992-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06830
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 92027846, Beltsville, MD : Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library. 1992. (Rural Information Center Publication Series, No. 17) 28 p.
scanning technology, AGRICOLA IND 92047818; presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, This paper addresses the questions most frequently asked about scanning : Why are we doing it? How exactly is it done? What does it cost? The answer to why we do it touches on the global forces that are shaping the Information Age. The many purposes for which scanning systems can be sued represent a force in themselves that is explored in some detail. Regardless of the purpose, image scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) systems are made up of much the same components, and these are described. The focus is on operational procedures, work flow, throughput, staffing needs, and costs based on the experiences of the U.S. National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project at NAL. (original)
Cites a report indicating that more than 50 percent of the monographs and serials in the National Agricultural Library collection are disintegrating and that more than one-fourth of the volumes are brittle, requiring that their contents be transferred to another medium in order to be useful and to escape loss to the scientific world.
