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Comment on When Is Big Too Big? by Audra

Audra — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:20:30 +0000

Here’s one of my favorite giant books. I think back in the day, it had its own reading stand. Otherwise, almost completely unusable. https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/163089_10150113468440712_2645022_n.jpg

Comment on When Is Big Too Big? by Tahe

Tahe — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:30:05 +0000

One of our institutional client sends us their law books that were bound in leather (now rotting)to be rebound and the spines sometimes measure up to six inches! They have to be split into two or three volumes for handleability since they are records that are still in use. We often would marvel at how out of proportion they were since they averaged about 8 1/2″ head to tail and 6″ spine to fore edge. They look like bricks before being disbound.

Comment on 1091 Project: The Plain Brown Wrapper Edition by Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:38:07 +0000

Good question. When these sorts of materials fall to the student workflow, they seem to take it in stride (they are generally the ones tipping in the replacement pages after Mindy scans and prints them). If a student did feel uncomfortable handling these materials and wanted a different assignment, I would certainly be sensitive to that, though.

Comment on 1091 Project: The Plain Brown Wrapper Edition by Beth

Beth — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:15:12 +0000

Serious question, do you let students do this work if it is normally within their job duties? I tend not to, just because I don’t want a phone call from someone’s mother. But then again, they are all over 18.

Comment on Aloha Harrison! by First Year, Check! | Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

First Year, Check! | Digital Repository @ Iowa State University — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:44:05 +0000

[...] Preservation and Digital Records Forensics Projects. You can find out more about me in “Aloha Harrison!,” a blog post Hilary Seo, our head of Preservation, wrote when I [...]