Agricultural Libraries Information Notes, Vol. 16: November-December 1990 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Agricultural Libraries Information Notes, Vol. 16: November-December 1990

If I were to visit working historians and teachers of history in their work places, their offices, or their classrooms, and tell them that I had an economical, workable system that would permit them to review in the comfortable, familiar environment of their offices for research purposes or to present in their classrooms for instructional purposes the vast holdings of the major research libraries, archives, museums, and manuscript depositories, quite likely, they would say: Imagine that!

But today, there is no need to imagine such possibilities, for the ability to do exactly that exists. Such capabilities are easily within the financial and technical capacity of most academic institutions and most historians. Today, optical laser disc systems can provide historians with high quality images from research collections throughout the country and the world at a reasonable cost.

These systems are not only affordable. They also can save the scholar and the educator significant sums by eliminating the need to travel to the depositories which have custody of the original im agery or the need to expend large sums on copying the original images onto another medium for use in research or instruction.

These analog systems are easy to use, and when joined with searchable databases supported by personal com puting hardware, they offer tremendous potential for rapidly accessing tens cf thousands of images. Furthermore, these systems are actually available, they are not in a developmental or prototype environment. They are at hand now and accessible.

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