RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?

["Pikas, Christina K." <Christina.Pikas@jhuapl.edu>]

We don't have old machines, we're a research lab for heaven's 
sake!  My machine is 2 months old and is one spec'd for 
engineering software (m/s, MATLAB, Labview, etc) instead of just 
office productivity products.

I have e-mailed Mr. McSean off list with specifics.  We also 
immediately contact the help desk of the vendor when we find 
these issues.  Even if the vendor immediately goes and re-scans 
the article, it is frequently too late for our customers' needs.

Christina PIKAS

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From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Erwin, Patricia J.
Sent: Tue 4/3/2007 5:06 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?

We have been analyzing this extensively. What we have discovered 
is that even with exemplary scanning, older machines with older 
video cards do make an enormous difference.

We have done comparisons - it does make a huge difference.

Patricia J. Erwin
Erwin.patricia@mayo.edu
Lead Reference Librarian
Mayo Clinic Libraries
Rochester MN 55905

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Mcsean, Tony
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 5:25 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?

Dear Christina,

Do you have the specific details of the unsatisfactory scans?
When we are notified of something like this we rescan it and
ensure it is usable, and if you can send me details I will set
this in motion.

Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Elsevier
32 Jamestown Road
London NW1 7BY

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K.
Sent: 31 March 2007 20:19
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?

No.  My users have had us ILL for copies from things we've 
recycled because we have online.  Some of the SD scans are 
horrible and the scientist can't make out the table figures. In 
fact, we've had to ILL twice for one article because the first 
came from a microfilm which was worse.  We had to track down a 
library that would photocopy the print and send it snail mail.

We have at least two generations we have to serve here so we 
still need to serve both.  My users want to scan the print 
(browse, that is), then save the electronic, and print from the 
electronic and read that copy so they can mark it.

This is all in my opinion and does not reflect the policy of my 
place of work or our management.

Christina K. Pikas, MLS
R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory