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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:03:45 -0700
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Subject: Digital photography of atlas pages
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Hi Folks

I'm looking for some advice or expertise regarding dealing with requests for
prints from pages of rare and oversize atlases.     Usually these are for
working copies - photocopies  or scans  as opposed to publication quality
reproductions.

Needless to say, many of our atlases can not be subjected to the trauma of
inversion on a photocopy machine and the intense light.

Also, we have neither adequate staff nor facilities to do, or arrange for,
high quality reproduction for these requests.   Thus we are looking for a
process which would allow us to produce an image or file that we could give
(at reasonable cost) to the client with out it requiring much staff time on
our part.

I am interested in how other map collections handle similar requests.   I am
considering the potential of digital photography - 5 megapixel cameras are
reasonably priced (or at least with the range of possibility ) .


Has anyone any experience of suggestions they could share with me.


David


David L. Jones, Map Librarian
William C. Wonders Map Collection
Science & Technology Library
1-26 Cameron Library
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J8
voice  (780)492-3433     fax   (780)492-2721
e-mail   [log in to unmask]


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