Today, LYRASIS, the United States’ largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals, announced that it has expanded its relationship with Creekside Digital to include preservation-quality digitization of microfiche scanning services as well as additional microform content (such as manuscript collections) to LYRASIS members through the Mass Digitization Collaborative. Here is an excerpt from …
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Pocahontas Times Goes Live and BetterLight Owners Conference
Greetings! It seems like we skipped spring and went straight to summer here in Glen Arm. Baltimore tied the record at 98 degrees yesterday, and today will be almost that warm. There’s a lot going on here. We’re working on several larger microfilm scanning projects right now, with a lot of smaller microfilm and non-microfilm …
The Upgrade to NextScan Lumintec
We upgraded to NextScan’s Lumintec lighting system yesterday. It uses LEDs (or more precisely, an array of strobed red LEDs) to illuminate the microfilm while it’s passing through the scanner rather than traditional halogen “hot lights.” Apparently, the CCD camera is more sensitive to the red wavelengths, and there are no IR emissions like you …
New from Creekside Digital: Ultra-Quality Fine Art Capture and Giclée Printmaking
Creekside Digital is proud to introduce our Fine Art Capture and Giclée Printmaking services. At our Glen Arm, Maryland location or onsite at your gallery, museum or studio, we provide the highest quality fine art digitization and reproduction services available today, for a very reasonable price. From artists who desire to sell multiple copies of …
We Are Moving!
Greetings and Happy New Year! 2010 was another great year for our company. Despite a bad recession, we managed to bring on new customers and continue delivering high-quality images to our ever-expanding customer base. Additionally, we announced a new microfilm scanning partnership with LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization for libraries and information professionals. …
LYRASIS Partnership Expanded to Include Books on Microfilm, Segmentation Options
We are pleased to announce that Creekside Digital’s partnership with LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization for libraries, has been expanded in two key ways: Books on microfilm are now eligible for the Sloan-subsidized pricing under the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative; and Digitized newspapers may now be optionally segmented (organized) by year, month, or …
Just how many books are there? How about 129,864,880!
Yesterday, Google posted on the official Inside Google Books blog that, by their calculation, there are approximately that many books out there. From our perspective, wow, that’s a lot of work! Capturing books at the highest quality possible, as well as scanning microfilm and similar items such as manuscripts, ledgers, scrapbooks, et al, ad naseum, …
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services
Today, LYRASIS, the United States’ largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals, announced that Creekside Digital is now providing preservation-quality microfilm scanning services to LYRASIS members through the Mass Digitization Collaborative. Here is the text of the press release (official press release on the LYRASIS site here): LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to …
Santa Paula Historical Society Case Study
Background Organized in 1977, the Santa Paula Historical Society of Santa Paula, California is dedicated to preserving, protecting and perpetuating the history of the town and the surrounding area. Its founding eleven Directors were descendants of pioneers or long-time residents, and many of them continue to serve the Society today. When the Santa Paula Historical …
Mixed Bag
Greetings! The Baltimore Metro Area hit a new record temperature for today’s date with a high of 105 degrees. Yes — it was miserable, and we’re all hiding in the air conditioning. No break in sight, either. But just five months ago, we literally had five feet of snow piled up in the parking lot! …