Comments on: Video from Cambridge University Press on their digitization of old books http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/video-from-cambridge-university-press-on-their-digitization-of-old-books/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:02:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Caroline Murray http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/video-from-cambridge-university-press-on-their-digitization-of-old-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1148138 Caroline Murray Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:15:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30183#comment-1148138 I would like to reassure 'pond' that gloves are available to the scanner operators, but that we work within the handling parameters laid down by the librarians and conservators of the books we scan. Gloves are not always thought to be necessary or indeed desirable. I would like to reassure ‘pond’ that gloves are available to the scanner operators, but that we work within the handling parameters laid down by the librarians and conservators of the books we scan. Gloves are not always thought to be necessary or indeed desirable.

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/video-from-cambridge-university-press-on-their-digitization-of-old-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1146673 pond Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:18:56 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30183#comment-1146673 Wonderful video, though a bit short on the geeky technical details I'm most interested in, and a bit long on PR for the Uni and its press and library. One thing shocked me: in the scene of scanning, the attendant wears no gloves -- not even a latex fingertip covering -- and presses one finger down on every single verso folio of the book. Ack! have they never heard of skin oils, acids, dirt? Wonderful video, though a bit short on the geeky technical details I’m most interested in, and a bit long on PR for the Uni and its press and library.

One thing shocked me: in the scene of scanning, the attendant wears no gloves — not even a latex fingertip covering — and presses one finger down on every single verso folio of the book. Ack! have they never heard of skin oils, acids, dirt?

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