Re: Catalog Scanning Project

[Carol Boyce <100u@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

What a great landfall of iris history for the AIS. Many thanks to Anne.
George Boyce
 
 
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From: John Jones
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Subject: [AISdiscuss] Catalog Scanning Project
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.

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.

To that end I have made a
Grant Request to the AIS Foundation to fund the 
project. 

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...

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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