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Facsimile Reprints and Reproductions as Preservation Copies

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This presentation by Kathryn Lybarger at the ALA Midwinter 2013 explores best practices for preserving brittle and damaged books. It covers vital decision-making steps for selectors on whether to repair, withdraw, or replace books, particularly in cases involving rare or out-of-print editions. Key topics include the benefits and drawbacks of various preservation methods, such as facsimiles, microfilming, digitization, and replacements with modern editions. Attendees will gain insights into the quality of different reproduction methods and how to properly catalog preservation copies.

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Facsimile Reprints and Reproductions as Preservation Copies

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  1. Facsimile Reprints and Reproductions as Preservation Copies Kathryn Lybarger Preservation Administrators Interest Group ALA Midwinter 2013

  2. Brittle/damaged books workflow • Damaged • Brittle • Cannot circulate

  3. Selector decision • Withdraw? • Repair? Box? • Microfilm? Digitize? • Replace with better edition?

  4. Some books are replaceable… • Recently published • Popular • Often good condition

  5. … others not so easily. • Older books • Rare books • Different edition

  6. Very new editions • Recently published • Print-on-Demand • Many publishers to choose from • Quality varies

  7. Photocopies • Traditional method • Somewhat grainy • Quality usually fine for text • Created by automated scanning

  8. Artifacts

  9. Batchscanning problems • Illustrations • Tipped in pages (errata sheets) • Folded maps • Damage

  10. Illustrations too light

  11. Illustrations too dark

  12. Illustrations cropped (or omitted)

  13. Tipped in pages Errata sheet Page below

  14. Tipped in pages BACK of Errata sheet Page below

  15. Folded maps

  16. Damage • Torn pages may appear incomplete • Pages missing from original will be missing from the duplicate • Full chapters or serial issues may be missing

  17. Photocopies include original metadata • Original publication metadata is present • Under AACR2, catalog original with note about facsimile • Under RDA, catalog the piece in hand

  18. Metadata may be removed • No indication of original publication date • No context for scientific information

  19. Odd content selection • Multiple titles may be packaged into one volume • (even if it doesn’t make sense)

  20. Printed text • May be high quality, effectively a new edition • Illustrations and maps may be included • Watch out for printing anomalies

  21. Mechanical printing problems

  22. Layout problems

  23. Minimal layout attempted Supplied title Text from Gutenberg title page Quotations on separate page Section title First poem (table of contents omitted)

  24. Printed (uncorrected) OCR • Font is lovely, text is often garbage • No illustrations, tables • Table of contents and index omitted (or point to other pages) Bar)/tesscratches easily with the knife, and from its great specific gravity is often called h££l‘Z/)1-Jfdii Gypsum is softer than barytes.

  25. Wikipedia printouts • May include multiple articles (hypertext!) • Good way to get otherwise unavailable content into your library • Why not just catalog the Wikipedia article? • Out of date quickly, but probably not vandalized

  26. When purchasing replacements for damaged books • Be familiar with the original piece • Know what kinds of problems to look for • Know which publishers are problematic

  27. Resources Print on Demand Publishers http://libguides.valenciacollege.edu/printondemand Project Gutenberg http://gutenberg.org/ Google Books http://books.google.com/ Internet Archive http://archive.org/

  28. Any questions? • Kathryn Lybarger Kathryn.Lybarger@uky.edu • Problem Cataloger http://pc.blog.zemows.org/

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