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Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions reports on over 400 survey responses and 300 interviews from faculty at 33 US colleges and universities, and covers topics such as "the quality of image resources, image functionality, management, deployment and the skills required for optimum use." The report was commissioned by Wesleyan University in collaboration with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE).

gscan2pdf is a Perl script that provides a graphical user interface for scanning to PDF files on Linux/BSD platforms. Still under development (current version is 0.8.0), but with reasonable goals: "At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of the Windows Imaging program, but with the express objective of writing a PDF, including metadata."

This issue contains articles "Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project" and "Digging Up Bits of the Past: Hands-on With Obsolescence," and an FAQ on "Five Tools for Managing Formats."