The Joint Task Force on Text and Image, whose work is supported by the Getty Grant Program, has completed its final report, Preserving the Illustrated Text . Current microfilm techniques. The preservation of halftone illustrations in text. increasingly common after 1880. requires further exploration, including additional data about the distribution of images in texts and exploratory trials of alternative technologies for preservation. The available information about the number and types of images in various kinds of publications in various epochs is insufficient and undependable for large ranges of time and materials.
Further information is needed about the effectiveness.
A serves of pilot projects that have been begun by the Commission should be continued and expanded to learn what time, effort. and special problems are involved in capturing text and image by scanning. The testimony also emphasized the need for full funding in 1993 and the development of a new five-year plan by NEH to be submitted with the fiscal year 1994 budget. As in previous years. Commission on Preservation and Access, and National Humanities Alliance. Merrily Taylor, University Librarian.