Case Studies

The Crowley Company Case Studies

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

For more than 20 years, The Crowley Company has provided capture equipment, software and technical support to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), helping to keep the agency at the forefront of technological changes in the records management and preservation industries. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1 to 3 percent is considered important enough for legal or historical reasons to be permanently preserved and archived. Read More

Life Photo Archive

Imagine seeing 75 years of history scroll across your screen every day. For two years. And you can’t talk about it. Such has been life (pun intended) for approximately 20 Crowley Company employees tasked with digitizing over 10 million images from Time Inc.’s LIFE magazine archives. Working since December 2006 and led by project manager DeAnne Larsen, the Crowley staff has witnessed never-publicized photos of distinguished personalities and celebrities, world events, wars, scientific advances and the intimate drama of daily life. Read More

Wyoming State Engineers Office

The State Engineers Office (SEO) experienced a doubling of their workload from 1999 to 2003,
a 10-15% increase of staff and a need to modernize their processes. These challenges resulted in the State Engineers Multi-year Information Technology (IT) initiative project. The project began
with a business case proposal by SEO and Weston Solutions Inc. and culminated in a multi-year effort to convert the agency’s work processes from the traditional paper-based system
to one that is fully electronic. Read More

The Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague

To historians and others, the newspapers we read and then toss aside so casually have a significance that endures long after the paper itself has turned to dust. For newspapers tell the story of our times. But how to preserve these historical records when paper, particularly newsprint, has a tendency to crumble with age? nd how to make the history documented in such pages permanently and easily available to the reading public? Read More