[Nhcoll-l] Scanning of bound field notes, was Re: Nhcoll-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 20

[Deb Paul]

Hi All,

This is a quick general note in reference to Andy Bentley's post looking 
for information about scanning field notebooks. If you are considering 
such a project and your collection is part of a University, it's a good 
idea to contact your University Library digitization staff (or your 
local public library digitization staff if you are not connected to a 
Uni). The library science folks have a lot of experience with 
book-scanning equipment as well as the related issues of tight-bindings 
/ re-binding, etc. They are also knowledgeable about building finding 
aids to these field notebooks and how to link (think identifiers and 
data standards) these resources to the specimens.

Best,
Deb

On 5/28/2013 12:01 PM, nhcoll-l-request at mailman.yale.edu wrote:
>     2. Scanning of bound field notes (Bentley, Andrew Charles)
>     
> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 23:01:04 +0000
> From: "Bentley, Andrew Charles" <abentley at ku.edu>
> Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Scanning of bound field notes
>
> We are potentially looking at scanning some of our field notes here at KU and I am wondering whether those who have undertaken such an endeavor in the past may have some input as to the best way to scan bound volumes?  These volumes are fairly tightly bound and will not be able to be spread to be photographed or scanned.  They will most likely need to be unbound before any scanning can take place.
>
> Has anyone made use of commercial unbinding, binding and scanning services?  If so who?  Any reviews?  Has anyone undertaken any part of this process themselves i.e. commercial unbinding but then scanning yourself an ending back to be rebound?  Any other options?
>
> Any recommendations from those who have been there before would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>

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