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The Library, on the other hand, could use some attention. I know that your free time for updating the site with new materials is limited, so maybe it would be a good idea to get help from qualified forum members to help out. I may be going on disability for a month or so this spring, stuck in the house. If so, I'll volunteer.
I can understand the frustration of not having the library updated in the past year. Beleive me, It's not my intent to have this situation continue indefinitely. Right now, getting someone else involved would entail considerably more work than catching up on the backlog. Library additions involve more than just uploading scanned images. The primary repository for scans is an offline archive that I maintain. Here, images are kept at their original resolution at with in a highly organized directory structure. New scans first have to have the directory structure modified and then added to the archive. After that, they are down converted to a standard 150dpi resolution, cropped to eliminate extra white space and heavily compressed to reduce the file sizes. These are what get published. They have to be added to a secondary archive. This is then uploaded to the site. Frontpage is then used to create a new page for every scanned image, a title page for the overall document and an updating of the index page containing the document. Finally, there is an offline Access database that I maintain and update containing meta data about each document added to the archive.