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For many years, Imaging Services has been copying — on microfilm, and now digitally — books that are picked from the flood of patron returns. Todd Bachmann has been writing blog posts about some of the amazing titles that have … Continue reading →

Some version of this camera was used in Widener in the early days of employing photographic technology to reproduce library materials. This camera was eventually replaced by Kodak microflim cameras. According to Wikipedia, “Harvard University Library was the first major … Continue reading →

A retiree with a scanner builds one of the world’s largest historic newspaper sites while tax-funded projects stall.

Nope. Not The Onion, it is in the Wall Street Journal.

God help and protect us.