Message-Id: <mailto:199507202018.PAA05590@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:12:56 -0900 From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: Digitizing Congressional Archives To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Hello,Is anyone out here working with folks doing or planning to digitize a Congressional Archives?
Those of us in academic libraries often have the papers of Senator X and Representative Y donated after their long and distinguished careers. [i'm leaving out the emoticons today] I've learned from a recent senatorial donation that the Senate has been microfilming (16 mm) the senators' coorespondence and other papers. So we have 1200 reels of 16 mm mfilm, dating from 1979 - .
I'm looking at digitizing it and am looking at the Screen Scan System at this point. It's from the Bell & Howell folks and they retrofit an existing 16 mm mfilm machine. It's then cabled to a PC running the screen scan software and you bring up the scanned image, save it if you want as a tiff image and move on. It would let us select what to save and what not to save (believe it or not a lot of the mfilmed correspondence doesn't have research value).
So, here's two questions. 1) Who out there is getting into Congressional Archives? and 2) who is familiar with the Screen Scan System. FYI: It got a product of the year "award" from Imaging Magazine in Dec 1994 in case you want to look at a blurb on it.
Stuart
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