[DOC] "Why Digitize?" by Abby Smith

[Terry Kuny]

"Why Digitize?" by Abby Smith

February 1999

A report for the Council on Library and Information
Resources is available at:

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html

Contents

Preface

Author's Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is Digital Information?
Digitization is not Preservation - at Least not Yet
Digitization is Access - Lots of It
What is Gained and What is Lost