bibliopunk
Cyberpunks and Steampunks are sidebars for the emergent Bibliopunks. The enclave will open the Print Alcove at the Book Festival next week end in…Gibson Park south of the Main Library! The PrintAlcove will feature the Mighty Columbian press, the Renown ZineMachine and best of all, New Aquisitions, incoming print books. There will actually be a place in the library for undergraduates to look at real books!
book and paper interest group
The BPIG/ALCTS/PARS at ALA still has mission definition work. The focus is to be a hold-out interest in tangible collections, but the entire meeting was on digitizing special collections. The group needs to clarify that the focus is on the continuing role of tangible collections in a context of their electronic delivery. There is also a need to mention “preservation”.
scan on demand
Production digital imaging from paper sources, long associated with interlibrary loan of general collections, is now increasing with special collections. These materials have long been restricted from physical circulation, but they now face other risks.
The nature of the new risks extend beyond physical damage and faulty imaging. New risks include a liberalization of protective curatorial control; we are going to digitize these materials. The two immediate preservation responses include image capture oversight and ever more strict assignment of the source originals to functions of back-up, mastering and authentication.