[QuadList] Quad Manuals--Parking the paper versions

[Ted Langdell]

Ed, The idea is to get the manuals scanned and make the scans widely available for access... access that doesn't require more than a trip to your computer.

Then what?

The paper manuals need a home that's got the wherewithal to house and care for them, and if requested, make them accessible to researchers on-site or perhaps allow for inter-library loan, as many public libraries are able to do via a network of agreements.

The Library of Congress—with whom this group has a strong affiliation—is the most likely place that can do the above.

The the Library's National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA has an interest in preserving the manuals, because they'll use them and the scans to get machines running in order to migrate content the Library has.

They'd also be useful when the Library begins to hold training classes, as has been discussed at several Quad Videotape Group NAB Luncheons, and at other times.

If there are are multiple copies of the same manual, they could be made available to other institutions across the country as part of a long-term loan project.

It would be helpful to know "Where the Quads Are" so that libraries receiving these duplicate copies are located near machines that tend to match the manual.

That would make it easier for Quad owners to borrow them, and continue the benefit of their existence.

Again, the goal is to make the manual's content widely available... while preserving the paper originals and providing a long-term mechanism for their continued existence.

Private ownership has gotten them this far... and as private owners begin to divest their collections, we appreciate the opportunity to extend the usefulness of what they have gathered.

Ted

Ted Langdell
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
Secretary for the  QuadVideotapeGroup.com: 
Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress


On May 16, 2012, at 12:18 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> Ted - if there re multiple copies they  should be spread out another other museums and repositories also.. hate to say it Ted... no one  I know  ever gets a chance to go to  the LOC for manuals... It is a good place to stash some  things  but not all things. Ed#
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> In a message dated 5/15/2012 1:17:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:
> We would ask that scanned paper manuals be preserved so that they can be sent to the world's biggest library—The Library of Congress—along with the scan file(s).
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> This will help to ensure the content is preserved and accessible long beyond the time many of us will be around to pay for web-hosting.
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> Ted


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