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Digitization: Does It Always Improve Access to Rare Books and Special Collections?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Correa, Dale J. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | In April 2016, the Israel State Archives announced the most recent stage of an ambitious project to digitize all of their holdings (potentially 400 million pages of material): the new archival website was ready online (Aderet). With the new website came the ability to request digital copies of documents, which would be available on the website within two weeks of the request (Aderet). However, researchers would now at the very least be discouraged from requesting access to the paper documents (Lozowick), or, in the worst-case scenario, be refused access to anything except the website (Baron and Newhall). Local scholars (including a prominent professor of history at Tel Aviv University), the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America (which publishes the prestigious International Journal of Middle East Studies) registered concern with the restriction of physical access to the archive and issued public calls for a reversal of the decision (Akevot Institute). The conflict was between perceived best practices of digitization and of archival stewardship (represented by the State Archivist Dr. Yaacov Lozowick) on the one hand, and standards and expectations for scholarly research on the Middle East, which largely depends on archival and rare book collections, on the other. |
| Related Links | https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/2152/46172/2/PDTC_45.4_CorreaPDF.pdf http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/pdtc.2016.45.issue-4/pdtc-2016-0026/pdtc-2016-0026.xml |
| Ending Page | 179 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| Starting Page | 177 |
| ISSN | 21952957 |
| e-ISSN | 21952965 |
| DOI | 10.1515/pdtc-2016-0026 |
| Journal | Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 45 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2017-02-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture History Digitization Archival Stewardship Special Collections Preservation Journal: Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, Vol- 45 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications Conservation |
