The Life Photo Archive Sees the Light of Day via Crowley Imaging
Known as LIFE’s Photo Archive, the project is a digitization of the historic photographic images taken for LIFE magazine, which printed from 1936 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000. The collection includes color and black and white negatives, transparencies, reflective prints and other photographic material. Read More »
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
In 2004, NARA Preservation and Imaging Specialist, Steven Puglia, along with Jeffrey Reed and Erin Rhodes, authored “Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images.” This guideline, an update to an earlier document, intended to provide a technical foundation and standardization for digitization activities. Read More »
One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images
A retired manufacturing engineer, Tom Tryniski devotes his time to digitizing historical newspaper from microfilm using a Wicks and Wilson Scanstation production-level microfilm scanner. This may be a one-man operation, but in the past 15 years, he has scanned an astonishing 26 million+ pages of newspaper. Read More »
Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards
Crowley Imaging recently completed a high-volume, on-site digitization project scanning nearly 40 million archival documents in just under four years using InoTec 400-series document scanners. Known for their 24/7 daily duty work cycles, high throughput and low maintenance requirements, these scanners are considered a tool for records managers, service bureaus and health care systems. Read More »
Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader
The PAL conversion project began at the Springfield, Ill. headquarters, but soon moved to NARA in College Park, Md., which held many project-relative images. Read More »
WHITE PAPER: Delivering Consistent Quality Images with Mekel Technology Microfilm Scanners
In an era where many practitioners of today’s digital imaging technologies have never experienced microfilm, it may seem archaic to discuss bringing microform images back to life. The fact is that there are billions of images stored on microform. Read More »
UK Border Agency Digitization Transformation Success
Reprinted with permission from Genus Group, a Crowley UK – formerly referred to as Wicks and Wilson – reseller. Originally posted in 2016, this case study features the InoTec 4×3 document scanner series and the 8850 microfilm scanners, which have since been replaced by the InoTec 300-Series scanners and the Mekel Technology microfilm scanners, respectively. Genus is delighted to report on a successful project recently undertaken by the UK Border Agency at its Landing Card Unit (LCU), based in Croydon....

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The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
A recent enquiry from a client led to the installation of a Wicks & Wilson C-Drive X Aperture Card Scanner at The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (RAFBBMF), based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Read More »
Bound contracts integrated into the digital inbox: Sparkasse LeerWittmund in Lower Saxony leverages the advantages of the overhead scanner
The groundwork for integrated digital processing was initiated internally several years ago. “Continuous optimization and investment in innovative technologies means we have been able to drastically reduce the amount of paper documents our staff handles on a day-to-day basis,” says Fokko Schwab, a member of the organization division. Read More »
Zeutschel Bookcopies Ease Student and Faculty Research While Encouraging Green Practice and Economy
With almost 34,000 students pursuing higher education in 2010, a North Carolina university has changed the way students “hit the books” with the purchase of seven Zeutschel overhead book copiers. Read More »
Danish Newspapers Travel the Globe Without Leaving Home
From 2012 through 2017 over 32 million microfilmed newspaper images will have been transported from Denmark … to be digitized in Germany … on scanners made in the USA … and processed in India … while never leaving Europe. Read More »
Crowley Imaging Helps Carroll County Remember the Times With Microfilm Preservation
For more than a century, the Carroll County Times has been covering local Maryland news while staying current with state, national and global issues, evolving to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and active community. Founded in 1911 as simply the Times, the paper was published weekly by the son of a prominent department store owner in Westminster, Md. Read More »
Maryland Historical Society
A generous grant from the Charles Edward Hilgenberg Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation and the support of Mr. John Hilgenberg and family allowed the Maryland Historical Society (MDHS) the opportunity to digitize their collection of Der Deutsche Correspondent – a German-language newspaper in print from 1841 through 1918. Read More »
Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology
The BSO team worked with BizTech Solutions who provided pre-sales expertise to assist them in defining requirements and understanding currently available technology in the micrographic marketplace. The BSO team ultimately selected the UScan+ Universal Film Scanner from Wicks and Wilson to handle the archive access. Read More »
Microfilm Digitization Project Enhances Efficiency, Customer Service
Onsite scanning of 60,000+ microfilm reels also adds a layer of records accessibility In May of 2016, The Crowley Company (Crowley) was contacted by Primerica, a leading provider of financial services to middle-income households in the United States and Canada, to discuss the backfile conversion of their insurance policy microfilm collection. At the time, the process to retrieve insurance records was – like that of most financial and insurance firms – enormously time consuming. Simplified, the process included: Receiving an internal...

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SmallTownPapers, Inc
Robinson Newspapers is in the process of working with SmallTownPapers to digitize a portion of its archives dating back more than 80 years. Read More »
How Much Personal GDPR Information Is Being Held On Your Microfilms?
Editor’s note: This blog was authored by Paul Negus of the Genus Group, a Crowley UK – formerly referred to as Wicks and Wilson – distributor. It is reposted with permission. June 5, 2017 The GDPR Conference Europe was held recently in London and it was surprising to get the feeling that a lot of businesses have not prepared for or are even aware of GDPR. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has been around for a while, having been introduced by...

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Bound Book and Microfilm Scanning for Presidential Libraries
Among numerous prestigious organizations, Crowley Imaging has had the privilege to digitize collections from several Presidential libraries. Two recent projects encompassed the digitization of papers and manuscript scanning of materials from the estates of Presidents Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Read More »
Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art
Providing maximum access to the collections was – and is – key to achieving AAA’s goal of becoming the premier resource on art history for researchers, historians and the public. Richardson and Fleischman could never have imagined the advent of the internet and its power to connect people and information across the world. Read More »
Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books
A not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old Hebrew books and related scholarship that are out of print and/or circulation. Since 2006, Crowley Imaging has scanned more than 11,000 volumes of rare and out-of-print works which were in danger of being lost, destroyed or which were simply disintegrating due to the passage of time. Read More »

The Life Photo Archive Sees the Light of Day via Crowley Imaging

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images

Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards

Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader

WHITE PAPER: Delivering Consistent Quality Images with Mekel Technology Microfilm Scanners

UK Border Agency Digitization Transformation Success

The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

Bound contracts integrated into the digital inbox: Sparkasse LeerWittmund in Lower Saxony leverages the advantages of the overhead scanner

Zeutschel Bookcopies Ease Student and Faculty Research While Encouraging Green Practice and Economy

Danish Newspapers Travel the Globe Without Leaving Home

Crowley Imaging Helps Carroll County Remember the Times With Microfilm Preservation

Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology

How Much Personal GDPR Information Is Being Held On Your Microfilms?

Bound Book and Microfilm Scanning for Presidential Libraries

Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art

Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books

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Meet Kitty Lamberger, Digitization Road Warrior

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Crowley’s Onsite Scanning Services Enhance Client Comfort While Providing Valuable Life Experience If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that this blog typically features individuals who are of historic importance and/or tied to a specific archival collection. In today’s post, we take a s...

Savoy Archive: Leading the Digitization Pack with the Zeutschel OS Q0

July 19th, 2022

The following blog, authored by Marquet Nuria at the Département Savoie, is reposted with permission. The Département Savoie (Savoy) is located in Chambéry, France and employs the Zeutschel OS Q0 cultural heritage scanner in their archival digitization process. The Savoy was one of the first arch...

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