Good Morning,

   We're about to begin a project here involving scanning postcards from our 
collection for use on the library web site.  I've been having a discussion with 
the director about the retention of TIFF files.  It's been my understanding 
that the TIFF files are retained as a kind of archival surrogate.  He maintains 
that we don't need to keep them because we have the originals and can always 
rescan for higher resolution images if we need them.  I do understand that the 
TIFF files are quite large and I'm wondering about storage for them.
   Any suggestions, on or offlist, are welcome.
         Thanks very much,

Ellen
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Ellen H. Fladger
Head of Special Collections
Schaffer Library
Union College
Schenectady, NY  12308

518-388-6616
518-388-6641 (fax)
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