(Feb 11/09) Although I was against having books put into storage after being scanned, I felt it was because I did not enjoy reading from the screen and would rather read from a book. I figured I was old fashioned and that I should get with the times. (As all young people are being told to do by those who produce the technology) Anyway, I started reading the so called scanned books and half the time, they are useless to see online. Ill give a particular example. Plastic deformation behavior of pure magnesium in the temperature range 4.2K--300K by Bhattacharya, Basab, Ph.D., McMaster University (Canada), 2006, 302 pages; AAT NR28246 I encourge someone to look up that PhD Thesis up and go to pages 246ish to look at the TEM images that have been performed. They are impossible to see. TEM samples take weeks to prepare and analyze. Now they can no longer be appriciated or learned from. Is this what we have to look forward to in the future? Personally, I would have rather bought my coffee from Tim Hortons and spent the extra money that went to build the cafateria at thode on a better scanner. What can be done about such bad quality?
Answered by: Anne Pottier (Associate University Librarian, Library Services/Facilities/Learning Support/Collections)