Damage caused by Hand-held scanners

[remelt at legacy.calvin.edu]

Greetings,

A professor here is traveling to Central America to scan (with a
hand-held scanner)  manuscripts of a Honduran novelist. The
archivist at the site is afraid the scanning will damage the
manuscripts. However, the professor could accomplish a lot of work
in a little time if he could scan. 

Please respond directly to the professor (emiller at calvin.edu). He is
not a member of this listserv and I will be on vacation starting
Saturday.

My question: Should the archivist be concerned? If not, does anyone
know where we can locate a document (or documents) that  
conclusively says scanning with a hand-held scanner is not harmful. 

Thanks!
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 Glenn Remelts                                        remelt at calvin.edu
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 Calvin College & Seminary                                 616-957-6072
 
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