Re: CD processing and preservation

[Craig Jensen <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A duplicate can be made of a CD with Adaptec Easy CD Creator and a CD-R
drive. (The software and the CD-R drives are cheap.) The library could make
copies of CDs or diskettes for circulation with the book and keep the
originals as the backup. This would limit wear and tear, from use, to the
copy and preserve pristine originals for recopying, when needed, in the
future.

This solution would not address any copyright issues, and it would
definently create a new workload, but it wouldn't take any disk space.

Craig Jensen


>Good morning, everyone -- We are receiving more and more CDs that come as
>inserts, so to speak, with books, journals, etc. You know the kind of
>thing I mean: a book arrives with a CD that contains some material to be
>used in conjunction with the text. The question has been raised about
>whether any extra preservation measures should be taken to protect the CD.
>
>Right now our Systems Office makes backup copies of any floppy disks where
>the content is thought important enough to require it. Apparently the
>capability now exists to digitize a backup copy of a CD-ROM and store it
>on our server. Leaving aside questions of copyright, workload, and disk
>space, do any of you do this? Do you take any other special measures for
>the protection of CDs that weren't ordered as such, but have been received
>with an item in some other format?
>
>I'm a little cynical about this issue, having served on a task force at
>another library that spent months discussing the topic and eventually
>decided to do nothing. If anybody has a neat, elegant, and
>conservationally-sound system for handling this type of material, I'd
>appreciate knowing about it.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>





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Craig W. Jensen
Vice President of Imaging
Acme Bookbinding
6112 Janey Drive
Austin, TX  78757

(512) 451-6370

craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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