Given the cost and time involved with producing a publication, as well
     as the ability to archive information for later use and historical
     purposes, you might want to consider these options:

     1) Acquire a ZIP drive at around $149 US (recently seen at $99 at
     www.onsale.com), with 96MB disks running about $130 a ten-pack.

     2) Tape drives are getting cheaper and cheaper- you could acquire one
     relatively inexpensively (I think Iomega's Ditto Drive is about $200).
     You then also have the ability to have a backup copy of your entire
     system, should you suffer a crash.

     3) Save the articles in some text-based format, grouped by issue. If
     you need to reprint articles, you can, just in a different format.

     I'd seriously consider options 1 or 2. If you ever want to put your
     back issues up on a website, you then won't have to redo all your
     work. I know PageMaker 6.5 has the ability to "Print" to a website,
     and would be surprised if Quark didn't have some similar option.

     Hope this helps!

     -Steve Eichner
     Research Analyst
     Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated
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Subject: electronic archiving/publications
Author:  Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    7/21/97 10:47 AM


We are trying to determine how long we should keep our quarterly
publication in an electronic format.  It is costly for the syquest disks we
must store the information on, but we don't know if we should weight this
out with some future benefit of having the magazine in this format.
What do you do?
Any advice for us?
Marcia Somers
Editor, Southern Oregon Heritage
Southern Oregon Historical Society
106 N Central Ave.  Medford, OR