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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Hi All,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Thanks to everyone who shared your<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Newsbank<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>experiences with me a few weeks ago.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Here’s a summary of the responses I received:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">6 libraries are getting digital microfilm starting in January</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">1 library is not continuing with digital microfilm</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Concern about whether<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Newsbank’s perpetual access claims can be trusted</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Concern about<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Newsbank’s monopoly</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Some libraries are getting a combined package for the large database + digital microfilm so if they cut the database their digital microfilm cost would greatly increase</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Difficult to work with as a vendor</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Archival newspaper products from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Newsbank<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>can be incredibly expensive and also require indefinite subscription to large
database package. If library cancelled the database subscription, they’d lose access to the archive.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Physical microfilm deterioration (vinegar syndrome)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Some libraries have no current online access to their local paper because they cannot afford the cost of the large databases</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Newsbank<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>prohibits text mining of their products</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Their large newspaper databases contain different titles for different customers. Perhaps there’s no “standard” packages for academic libraries?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Other companies still produce microfilm so perhaps<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Newsbank<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>simply isn’t interested in continuing to sell this product?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Their microfilm costs have been 4-5 times the costs from other companies</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Digital microfilm doesn’t have an index so other libraries cannot request articles via interlibrary loan</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Newsbank’s agreements with newspaper publishers can vary</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">My library has decided not to move to their new digital microfilm product in 2019 due to some serious interface and metadata problems (article titles don’t display in search results, PDF page downloads are not
screen readable, no metadata in our Primo discovery system).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Charlie Remy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Charlie Remy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Associate Professor <br>
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian<br>
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library<br>
UTC-Dept 6456<br>
600 Douglas St.<br>
Chattanooga, TN 37403<br>
<a href="mailto:charlie-remy@utc.edu" target="_blank">charlie-remy@utc.edu</a><br>
Tel. <a href="tel:423-425-4470" target="_blank">423-425-4470</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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