Message-Id: <mailto:199507211320.IAA18973@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:17:43 -0400 From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Re: Digitizing Congressional Archives To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>At the University of Virginia Library, we have a number of collections of
>Congressional papers (Harry F. Byrd, Sr., and Jr., Richard Poff, Carter Glass,
>William B. Spong, etc.). We also receive Sen. John Warner's papers on
>microfilm. I am interested in the Screen Scan System, but want to know if it
>will work with 35mm film. We presently are getting quotations from service
>bureaus for scanning our microfilm of our Jefferson Papers which we would like
>to make available on the Internet very soon. We would certainly have to talk
>with Sen. Warner's office staff about digitizing from the film, but it's and
>interesting possibility. Ned Berkeley
>
Ned: The Screen Scan works off the projected image, so it doesn't care what the medium is--fiche, 16mm, 35mm.Are you going to scan the Jefferson Papers at 1 bit (black and white)? If not, have you found a bureau with a 4 or 8-bit scanner? We're still waiting on Mekel for that.
Robert Rosenberg Thomas A. Edison Papers Rutgers University mailto:rarosenb@gandalf.rutgers.edu