Facsimile Reprints and Reproductions as Preservation CopiesKathryn LybargerKLA/KSMA Joint Spring Conference 2012April 12, 2012

Brittle Books project

Box?

Withdraw?

Replace?

Photocopy Reprints

Grainy quality Generational loss

Created by automatic scanning Pictures may be dark or

blotchy Maps or other foldouts

may be omitted

Overall not bad

Printed text

May be high quality, effectively a new edition

Illustrations and maps may be included

Watch out for printing anomalies

Printed (uncorrected) OCR

Font is lovely, text is often garbage

No illustrations, tables

Table of contents and index omitted (or point to other pages)

Wikipedia printouts

Good way to get otherwise unavailable content into your library

May include multiple articles (hypertext!)

Why not just catalog the Wikipedia article?

Out of date quickly, but probably not vandalized