[OPLINLIST] Microfilm Digitization

[David Kite]

I am not in an Ohio library, but my Indiana library has a similar dilemma.
We were going to ship ours off for digitization until we learned we may
have the only existing copies of a large number of our rolls. Most freight
ships without incident, but there are still lots of things that get lost or
destroyed and we didn't want to take that chance either.

We are also in the process of replacing our older (decaying) acetate
microfilm with polyester film, but we run into the same dilemma with having
the only existing copies of many rolls. After speaking with our state
archives and state library, we agreed that shipping them was too risky.
We've been using the Indiana State Library to replace the films we both
have copies of, but for the films they don't have, they recommended that
someone from our library personally transport the unique films to the State
Library. We are only an hour and a half away from them, so for us that is
perfectly feasible, and drastically minimizes the shipping risk.

On the topic of digitization: a lot of our newspaper films are still under
copyright. I'm not well versed enough in copyright law to know for sure,
but for other libraries that have digitized microfilm, is digitization for
library use allowed, or did you just not digitize copyrighted microfilm?

David Kite

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:25 PM Morgan Paul via OPLINLIST <
oplinlist at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

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> I would like it to be done with the Ohio Memory Project.
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> If you didn’t choose Ohio Memory, why didn’t you choose this option?
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> One concern is that some of our microfilm is the only copy and we don’t
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