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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Hand Scanners
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:58:02 +0000
References: <3BE079C7.59FF9D9@lightage.demon.co.uk>


In article <3be36225$1@news.iprimus.com.au>, Kirsten Friis Holm Hawkes
<> writes
>I am pretty sure the State Archives and maybe even Mitchell Library in
>Sydney NSW have signs saying hand held scanners are not to be used! bummer
>Huh??? :-(

I know that when these were around some years back, that Archives turned
their faces against them, because of heat damage to irreplaceable
documents (typed stuff is one thing - original documents are another.

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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