Charges for Scanning -Reply -Reply

[Ilene Frank (REF)]

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Dan Lester wrote:

> 
> 
> Copiers benefit the library as much or more than they do the
> patrons.  They reduce theft, mutilation, damage, etc, by a
> great deal.  Although no system is perfect, the advent of
> security systems and copying machines have greatly
> improved the maintenance of library collections....I'm old
> enough to have worked in libraries before either was available
> in the vast majority of places.  Some of us even remember
> how to take notes!   o-)

I see scanners - and probably related OCR software - in our future. 
Don'tcha think that scanners are going to be the copying machines of the
New Millenium?  I predict that we'll have scanners for the same reasons
that libraries installed copiers as Dan mentioned. 

Ilene Frank, Reference Dept.
Tampa Campus Library, LIB 122 
University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33620
ifrank at lib.usf.edu        Work 813.974.2483
http://www.lib.usf.edu/~ifrank/