Hi all,
I have five working computers including my first purchased in 1985. The latest has Windows VISTA which has been a challenge, although it is faster than the older ones. I have DSL and currently receive the Region Six Newsletter online and this has the advantage of receiving pictures in color. But sometimes there are quite a few pages to use up my paper and ink. I will always print out a copy because it is much easier to read that way than on the screen. I am a life member of the majority of AIS sections and this could become a burden if all the sections turn to digital publicaions. I do save all the publications and storage has become a problem, but I want to be able to grab a printed publication rather than searching through the computers.
Dorothy Willott
SIGNA almost always has a table at AIS conventions. Will Plotner has done a great job of manning it along with Carla and even myself. If one has a collection of all the SIGNA newsletters, like I do, one knows that a set is at least four large notebooks full about two foot in thickness. Although I love actual printed publications, but I have to admit I am running out of bookshelves.
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SIGNA almost always has a table at AIS conventions. Will Plotner has done a great job of manning it along with Carla and even myself. If one has a collection of all the SIGNA newsletters, like I do, one knows that a set is at least four large notebooks full about two foot in thickness. Although I love actual printed publications, but I have to admit I am running out of bookshelves.
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I don't think Carla does. They would be way too cumbersome. We do try to get seeds to AIS when we can. I've only made a couple of conventions myself. Prepare to have a great time!
SIGNA is probably way down on Google's list for digitization. :)
Rod
From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
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Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 1:47:48 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] digital SIGNA bulletin?
I assume you take a stack along to sell at the AIS conventions? I've
never been to one, but we are hosting one in 2011.
And maybe Google has digitized the journals already, or are they doing
only books? We have a copy of the family history of one branch of the
family, information from the 1700s on, and privately published in the
late 1800s. I just found it online, digitized by Google.
Diane
On 8-Jan-10, at 11:24 AM, Ellen Gallagher wrote:
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> Carla won't like that because she has a room full of paper copies
> she'd love to sell.
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> I hear you - I have tons of back issues of The Siberian Iris but
> remain hopeful that folks still would like to buy hard copies...
> time to move on in the digital world... :-)
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