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"Have any special collections had experience with a commercial publisherof digital products that disbinds your rare books for ease of scanningthem? A large special collection which contracted with a well-knownvendor of digital library products has had a number of its raresammelbände disbound during the scanning process. The vendor has alsosuggested to the library's director that the vendor should be allowed todisbind the library's 17th through 19th-century manuscripts to make themeasier (and presumably cheaper) to scan.  In this day of improvedtechnology such as the Zeutschel and other book scanners, is it everreally necessary to break a book in order to capture page images? (Thesevolumes sewn normally, not stab sewn or stapled). If such destruction isnot necessary, how do you communicate this to library administrators whothink they're getting a terrific deal because the publisher is payingfor the content?" (EXLIBRIS-L)