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"This book contains excellent information to assist librarians in serving patrons seeking help with their genealogical or family history research. . . . This work is recommended for all reference collections, with circulating copies for library patrons. Libraries should provide free personal copes for each reference librarian to mark up for themselves for use during consultations with genealogical or family history patrons."
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The Electronic Library
Overview
Translating visual works into verbal form is clearly a formidable task. While libraries have a century of cooperative cataloguing behind them, museums and other cultural institutions have tended to go their separate ways, believing the objects in their collections are unique. Dr. Kupietzky has put together a guide for digitizing encyclopedic, multilingual museums that promises to both standardize and streamline the process.
Part I provides a review of the literature and of the ...