Re: Catalog Scanning Project

[RILEY PROBST <6005371f1@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

John,
This sounds wonderful! What a great asset this will be. Many thanks to Anne for making the catalogs available and many thanks to Mike and Anne for collecting the catalogs.

I have many of the same catalogs such as many Schreiner, Cooley, Austin and a complete set of Gordon Plough's Eden Road Iris Garden. If I or my catalogs can help, please let me know.

Riley Probst

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>From: John Jones <100h@rewrite.aisboard.org>
>Sent: Sep 21, 2014 9:14 PM
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>Subject: [AISdiscuss] Catalog Scanning Project
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>Over the years Mike and Anne Lowe collected a large repository of old iris catalogs. The collection includes all the Schreiner and Cooley catalogs, Muhlestein, Plough, Whiting and many others.
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>Anne has agreed to donate the collection in Mike's honor (about 10 banker's boxes) to a project for AIS to
>non-destructively scan, OCR and convert to a searchable PDF all the catalogs much as I did for the collection of AIS Bulletins.
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>To that end I have made a Grant Request to the AIS Foundation to fund the project. 
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>Once the project is completed the AIS Board can decide whether the files should be made part of the AIS Electronic Membership, or made available to the General public or...
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>I will keep you all informed when I hear from the foundation.
>
>Thanks
>
>John
>AIS Registrar/Recorder
>Chair AIS Electronic Services
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