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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Pomona in PDF
  • Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:23:40 -0500

You could get them all on a 2 sided DVD, that's 9.4 GB, 4 hours.
Gordon
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CD-ROMs are a good method for distributing large amounts of data. I don't think it would take too many CD-ROMs to hold the all of the back issues of Pomona. That would be a good product to sell. There are however at least two problems that I know of with using CD-ROMs as archival storage. The first is a materials problem. CR-ROMs can delaminate if they are not stored under the proper conditions. The second is the problem of hardware. How many people have 8-track tapes or 5 1/4 inch floppies that they don't have the equipment to use? This can happen with CD-ROMs also. My library has some early CD-ROMS that we cannot use any more because we no longer have the right equipment to read them. It is not always easy to migrate information from one format to another. An example is migrating your LP collection to cds. It can be done but it is not always easy or cheap to do. Many librarians do not consider CD-ROMs to be a good method for permanent storage of information. Books and magazine printed on good quality paper will outlast CD-ROMs but I still would probably still probably purchase the back issues of Pomona on CD-ROM if they were available.

Tom Volkening
Engineering Librarian
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-432-1498
Fax: 517-353-9041
Email: volkenin@msu.edu
volkenin@egr.msu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hansen [mailto:brucehansen@acd.net]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:29 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Pomona in PDF


Rodney:

That is a good idea.

Bruce z5 MI

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Rodney Eveland
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:05 PM
To: Nafex
Subject: [NAFEX] Pomona in PDF


>As far as cost is concerned, it is only the Adobe Acrobat reader that is
>free--the program to post articles costs big bucks. And there would be
>additional costs for archival storage, with the risk that a change of
>servers or a new virus could wipe out archives. (Not an imaginary danger.
>There was some European travel magazine that lost its store of archived
>photos a couple years ago when the Love Bug virus hit.)

All of that may be true however archived data can also be stored on
CD-ROMs which would not only protect the data from viruses but also is a
very convenient method of making data available. I wouldn't mind paying
for a copy of all the past Pomonas in PDF format shipped to me on a
CD-ROM. That way I could print out 15 or more hard copies of various
articles and then go lay ny the fire with a glass of wine and read, and
dream........ Shucks I'd even except the articles in ordinary text
format.
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