The user won't let us throw away the original. Several people said that their library kept the microoriginals in a box or wrapper, while others said they just reshelved them. Opinion differed on whether librarians are retaining the originals for production of more copies in the future. They are about a third of the way through the project, just into the production phase mw, with equipment or software upgrades every ten days or so. They have done 68 books out of their 1000-book single so far, at the rate of four books a day.
Image quality is about equal to the quality of a good photocopy, sometimes better.
Some types of complex or damaged images are copied better by the scanner, others not. Presentations on this project will be given at other conferences, but so far there is nothing published on it. Selection for microfilming is still an issue. The irony springs from the conflict between the national need and needs of the local users. Both are pressing and legitimate.