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Control High-Res Sharing

Staff keep emailing high-resolution archival scans freely and we occasionally discover them on commercial sites. This …

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DBecome — “help me grow”Staff keep emailing high-resolution archival scans freely and we occasionally discover them on…+
Staff keep emailing high-resolution archival scans freely and we occasionally discover them on commercial sites. This is undermining donor trust. Locate the recurring failure in how we authorize downloads, and recommend one light-touch institutional policy that prevents casual distribution without blocking legitimate research. Say who must approve a download, what technical restriction to apply, and the short notice we should put on the public catalog.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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We need a policy so staff stop over-sharing high-res scans with no controls

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Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Acrobat — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.