In checking some of our holdings against the Internet Archive, I noticed
quite a few books on microfilm. To be honest, the download time was so
long I gave up actually looking at these "scanned" microfilm products.
However, it got me thinking about large microform sets in art history.
Hitchcock's American Architectural Books...published before 185 and its
supplement, Park's List...1700-1775, came to mind. I did a small spot
check and found a few books, not from microfilm, in the Archive. Wouldn't
it be a boon to have all the books in those lists available online via
Internet Archive or Open Content Alliance scanned from either the print or
microfilm? (Actually, I don't know why the microfilm isn't subject to
copyright.) The microfilm sets are so disliked! Maybe someone already has
begun working on such a project?
BTW, are you adding online links to your catalog print book records when a
book is available both in print in your library and online for free? I
don't know how titles available in IA, OCA, etc. can be made more
accessible to an institution's users. Of course, there is also the matter
of subject access!
Ruth S. Thomas
Archaeology, Art, Art History, Classics Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
(617)353-3770
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