The collection contains handwritten items. The collection contains materials printed before 1940. The original materials are in fragile condition. The collection primarily consists of bound printed materials. The collection contains materials in a digital format.
Digitization is requested for purposes of BOTH preservation of and access to the materials.
There are options in the digital format of images and in the type of text encoding used, depending on the intended use of the materials. Images may be stored in archival quality TIFF format, which requires more storage space, or access quality JPEG format, which saves storage space but sacrifices some image quality. Because standard browsers cannot display the TIFF files, a JPEG version must be included in addition to the archival TIFF image if users are to have access. Similarly, text may be encoded using archival standard SGML, or in HTML, which merely allows access and is not considered a long-term format. SGML encoding adds significantly to costs, as the coding itself is more complicated, and the SGML must be converted to HTML in order for users to access the documents.