[Genealib] Re: Looking to the Future

[P.M. McLaughlin]

I want to purchase the 1940 film for my county when it becomes available - subscriptions come and go, but the film is ours forever.

We collect, index and send the local weekly to our state library for microfilming.  As someone else mentioned, the online versions are often missing items from the print editions, and not just ads.  I have found full (sometimes multipage) articles in our index and microfilm that were NOT on the newspaper's website OR in the America's Newspapers database that we subscribe to.

I am now trying to rustle up grant money to purchase a new microfilm reader/printer, pref. with scanning capabilities.

Pam McLaughlin
Fremont Public Library
1170 N. Midlothian
Mundelein IL  60060



--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Claire Kluskens <cpklus-genelib at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Claire Kluskens <cpklus-genelib at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Genealib] Re: Looking to the Future
> To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 8:34 PM
> I have also found the answers to this question interesting,
> particularly those that mentioned microfilm. Are you still
> purchasing locally-relevant microfilm? Even if the related
> records are currently digitally available?
> 
> When the 1940 census is released in 2012 would you/your
> library want to purchase one or more microfilm rolls for
> geographic areas that fall within the scope of your
> collection?  Or will you rely on online digital access from
> whomever may provide it?
> 
> Claire Kluskens
> NARA, Washington, DC
> "Just curious; this is not an official survey. My
> opinions, if any, may not reflect those of my employer."
>