Hi Jim! I PM'd you with something I thought you could help me with. You should find it very interesting.
Yank
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Originally Posted by Jim
If you are not able to care for them then donating them to an appropriate museum or library is a good choice. BUT, before you do be sure to talk with them since some museums or libraries do not accept donations easily (everything they accept they will have to care for and that implies an ongoing budgetary cost to them and they all have limited budgets). Also make sure they have a policy to make such materials available to the public, even though they may not display them. Finally, ask them about their policy on deaccession. Pretty much all museums and libraries sometimes do something called deaccessioning. This means they sell off trade away whatever they do not care to keep to get cash for their operating costs or to acquire things they really want.
Do not worry about photographing your photos - it will not harm them if you do not do it constantly and if you do not focus exceptionally bright lights to blaze away on them. Make your digital photos very high resolution and put them up on a website where everyone can see them. There are some free webhosting sites where you can do it for little or no cost. Once they are out on the web people will copy them and and they will become preserved for the future in a way they never would be if they were only kept in your collection or in the collection of the museum or library.
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