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Marginalia in which the reader corrects the text, changing “savage” and “heathen” to “peaceful” and “happy.”
From p. 8 of The Past and Present of the Sandwich Islands, by Timothy Dwight Hunt (1853). [Here]
This is what we mean, as librarians and archivists, when we talk about the importance of true digitization (as opposed to digital transcription). There is value in the physical item of a book itself, not just the existence of the work. SO many books contain a world of their own history - a path that traces past hundreds and sometimes thousands of people and times and places.
Perhaps this seems like a silly or insignificant matter, but for archives and libraries across the world it is at the heart of their continual fight for the money and resources they need to protect these silent histories.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxdn9w8de1qixa76o1_500.png)
Marginalia in which the reader corrects the text, changing “savage” and “heathen” to “peaceful” and “happy.”
From p. 8 of The Past and Present of the Sandwich Islands, by Timothy Dwight Hunt (1853). [Here]
This is what we mean, as librarians and archivists, when we talk about the importance of true digitization (as opposed to digital transcription). There is value in the physical item of a book itself, not just the existence of the work. SO many books contain a world of their own history - a path that traces past hundreds and sometimes thousands of people and times and places.
Perhaps this seems like a silly or insignificant matter, but for archives and libraries across the world it is at the heart of their continual fight for the money and resources they need to protect these silent histories.
