Case Studies

The Crowley Company Case Studies

UScan Digitizes Engineering Data, Corporate Archives of Major Food Producer

A leading U.S. food producer recently purchased a UScan microform scanner, designed by The Crowley Company’s Wicks and Wilson division, to help retrieve and archive key engineering drawings. These documents, some decades old, were created to build and maintain custom-designed processing equipment that is still in use today. Read More

Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art

Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Edgar P. Richardson, then Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Lawrence A. Fleischman, a Detroit executive and active young art collector, the initial goal of the Archives was to serve as a microfilm repository of archival papers housed in private hands and other institutions. This mission expanded quickly to include collecting and preserving original material. In 1970, the Archives joined the Smithsonian Institution. Read More

InoTec Document Scanners Help To Improve Administrative Efficiency, Patient Treatment Through Digitization

Ten InoTec SCAMAX 4x2-series document scanners have been implemented to update the electronic records management practices of a multi-facility hospital system. Scanning more than 400,000 patient records, medical files, documents and X-rays per month, the units have helped to improve record accuracy, management, storage and access challenges. Read More

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

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. The university’s main campus library had five standard paper copiers replaced with three state-of-the-art Zeutschel Color OS 12000 Bookcopy (12000BC) units. Four additional units are located in branch libraries. Read More

Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist
Service Committee

In July 2006, Fran O’Donnell and the Andover-Harvard Theological Library (AHTL) received a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (the Museum) asking to explore the possibility of digitizing and microfilming the records of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees archived at Harvard Divinity School. The Museum, along with the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC), France, was prepared to fund the digitization and microfilming efforts in order to make them available to scholars, researchers and the public free of charge. Read More

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