Re: Scanner for the AIS Library

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

Before making any decisions I think we need to know what we want to accomplish. There are many slides in the library but asking the librarian to scan slides may be too much to ask. Scanning documents and bound books is best done by a flatbed scanner. scanning slides on a flatbed scanner is tedious although I have done that. I think we need to be aware of what all parts of our organization are doing. We have a slide committee and slides can be sent from the library to that committee to be scanned. I believe the librarian has her hands full just responding to printed literature. 
Yes I believe a good flatbed scanner should be the way to go and i think how we handle slides is another issue. I am interested in getting images from hybridizers that document their own work that they have taken themselves. This seems important as archival material both to be stored in high resolution in the library and in low resolution on the wiki. I would favor having the hybridizer select a number of their slides and have them professionally scanned at our cost. Many of these will eventually be historic but are not yet old enough for HIPS to address. I would like to see these images up on the wiki while the hybridizers are still alive so that they could add comments about each iris. But I think expecting them on their own to have these digitalized is asking too much. I would like to propose that these be handled in a grant from the foundation. There are several stake holders in this. The librarian needs to have a digital archived, The Slide committee and the wiki needs to have access to the files for presentation and HIPS needs to have these available in the future.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Aitken" <terry@flowerfantasy.net>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Cc: countri@molalla.net
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:53:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Scanner for the AIS Library

Hi all
I may be letting the Cat out of the bag, but Tracy just retired from her job
in the last few weeks.
They have copy equipment at the library.
I guess I don't know why someone else would do the scanning?
I don't know how old the library computer equipment is.
Tracy will love this one!
Terry
Hi Tracy!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of Janet Smith
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:02 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Scanner for the AIS Library

My two cents worth --- 
if someone else do the scanning --- do they get the scanner?
Do they have to visit Tracy?
Who has been doing it so far?

Janet

---- Original Message ----
From: MORRISJE1@aol.com
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Scanner for the AIS Library
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:56:51 EST

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>All,
> 
>I agree that we need to determine the type of scanner needed for the 
>
>function being performed.  I would very much like to hear from the
>AIS  Librarian 
>as to what she thinks before we start considering $500, $600 or $700 
>
>scanners.  For the type of material we have been needing for 50th 
>anniversary 
>section publications and history searches, the previous HP Scanjet 
>3970 or 
>equivalent scanner is adequate.  Jim Reilly is right that 
>Printer/scanners 
>don't get the job done as their quality is lacking and they  tend to
>break 
>down with even moderate usage.  Let us hear from Tracy.   Please.  
> 
>And if you are talking long range type scanning of historical
>documents  
>into electronic form I have to ask who is going to do it?  I do not
>believe  
>that type of activity was what Tracy volunteered to perform.  I
>understand  
>that she has a real job and only visits the library one day a week. 
>Do we  
>even know if she has a computer in the Library?
> 
>Jim M.
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>In a message dated 2/27/2010 5:53:59 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
>jijones@usjoneses.com writes:
>
>Before  we start thinking about money, we need to determine what kind
>of 
>scanner (or  scanners) we need.  
>
>
>Flatbed \scanners are fine for a few documents but if any kind of
>volume  
>is expected then you need a scanner specifically designed to provide
>sheet  
>feeding capability and one that provides high quality scanning and
>document  
>positioning. Flatbed scanners are good but often need several scans
>before 
>you  get the alignment correct. The scanning technologies are pretty
>much the 
>same.  Either the scan bar moves past the document (Flatbed) or the 
>document moves  past the scan bar (sheet feeder) The scanner that we
>get should be 
>able to  manage multiple page documents so that moving forward we can
>start 
>to get more  of more of our historical documents into electronic
>form.
>
>
>Software to put multiple pages into the same target (pdf) document
>and to  
>do character recognition is another consideration
>
>
>My wife has a Fujitsu sheet feeder scanner at her work that works
>really  
>well scans both sides of the document at the same time and cost about
> $450.
>
>
>I think that $400 - $600 is probably the right price range for a
>scanner  
>that meets out requirements.
>
>
>John
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