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L ibrarians began to explore the technologies that allow printed m aterials to be converted to a digi tiz e d fo rm in th e 1980s.T h is technology essentially turns a printed original w ork into a com puterized im age.A lthough the technology is not new, it is only recently that it has becom e feasible to put the technol ogy into test production in libraries.Digitizing is accom plished through the use o f a scanner, which em ploys optical character recognition technol ogy.T his technology is available today and can even be used with your personal com puter if you wish to scan a docum ent and convert it and its artw ork to a digitized form.The result is an A SC II text file, created from a bit-m apped image.A digitized im age can be retrieved through a com p u te r to b e v ie w e d , p rin te d , or transferred over a network.Digital im aging technology has several po te n tia l a p p lic a tio n s in lib ra rie s, including preservation.B rittle books, journals, art prints, or photographs may be scanned and preserved in a digitized form or re prin ted on acid free paper to replicate the original work.The library m ay even scan facsim iles o f printed works, such as m icro film, to convert them to a digitized form.
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