December 17, 2004
Scholars Take Notes by the Megapixel, but Some Librarians Object
When Clifton C. Crais, a professor of history at Emory University, goes to a special-collections library or an archive to do research, he uses his digital camera as a personal photocopy machine.
When he finds an interesting document, he puts it on a table, stands over it with the camera, and shoots a picture. Then he loads the image of the document into his laptop's hard drive for further study. On a recent trip to Britain's public-records office, in London, he took more than 200
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