Hi Treden!
We have a small slide library AND I believe we recently purchased a
small slide scanner to scan them with. We will continue to hold onto
them for the foreseeable future (there aren't that many, so it's not a
big deal for us to keep them. I would like to organize them better,
though...). Since most of our assets are now in digital form, there's
not often a lot of call for the slides, but sometimes there are
requests. Those will likely be digitized first, as well as those slides
which represent objects we don't currently have a digital photograph of.
Back in the day (ok, ok, a whole 5 years ago), I was a slide librarian
in the art history department at a large public university. The slide
library contains 200,000 slides. We scanned slides mostly depending on
the needs of the professors. We built classroom web pages for them, and
scanned the slides they requested for that purpose. We also scanned
whatever happened to come to hand - for example, a big stack of mystery
slides near the desk would become a project to figure out what they
represented, then we would scan them and file them, with a mark noting
that there was a digital copy. But need was the biggest priority.
Best,
Perian Sully
Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Museum Slide Libraries
Hello all,
I am interested learning more about museum slide libraries-specifically
about the future of your slide library. Does you institution have a
library of 35mm slides?
Is there a plan to digitize the collection?
How did you decide what to digitize?
What will you do with the slides once they are digitized?
I welcome any other comments on this topic.
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Treden Wagoner
Treden Wagoner
Coordinator of Education Technology Programs
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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