Conroy’s Corner

I was happy to discover that we had a connection to the Washington Post archives through AU.  I was woefully ignorant of that fact before class.  I love using the New York Times Historical site to research things.  I find that newspapers, especially the further back one goes, are great sources of gossip and reveal the feelings of the common citizen.  I honestly feel that any boring paper could be livened up by some sensational newspaper headline about the topic or some tangential hook to begin a paper.

Although I generally understood the section on digitizing images, I am unclear about the TIFF, JPEG, and GIF formats in relation to digital cameras.  Does one have to have a special digital camera or scanner to get a TIFF format?  I highly doubt that my canon powershot can take things at a high enough resolution to meet Library of Congress standards.  How defined do pictures on a website need to be if they will only be viewed over a small area?