Re: Catalog Scanning Project

["Robert Pries " <101p@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

I am confused, I have talked to Anne several times since Mike's death and she had said she was sending me the catalogs to put onto the Encyclopedia. I had already contacted Schreiner's and The Cooley heirs and obtained permission to do this. My intent was to scan them myself nondestructively and then to send them on to the library.
I already have the off copyright Cooley's catalogs up on the wiki in pages linked to their source and planned to put them onto the Encyclopedia proper. This would allow them to be searchable also.

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From: "John Jones" <100h@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 12:14:49 AM
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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Bob Pries
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