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 »
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 »
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, the InoTec document scanners are generally considered a tool for records managers, service bureaus and health care systems. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Daughters of the American Revolution
In 2000, the DAR embarked on an ambitious and vital plan to preserve these membership applications for future generations of members and researchers. Working closely with the Crowley service bureau, DAR researched the best approach to preservation and developed a plan to create a set of digital images and microfiche for each application. Read More »
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 »
Chancery Records Index
The reformatted images—whether digital scans or microfilm—can be viewed at the Library of Virginia, at the circuit court clerk's office or, in the case of digital images, from any internet-connected computer. 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. 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 »
WHITE PAPER: Dealing with our Aging and Deteriorating Microfilm Collections
At The Crowley Company, we’re seeing an increased number of requests for services regarding aging microfilm collections. The requests range from inventory assessment to digitization to image hosting. This uptick in requests – a trend, in my opinion – brings with it the need to understand the history of microfilm and how and why today’s collections may be in peril. 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 »
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 »
Wyoming State Engineers Office
This brochure is intended to illustrate the many benefits of an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) utilizing the combined resources of The Crowley Company, a world leader in commercial imaging solutions, and enChoice, a premier software developer and solution provider. This synergism resulted in a very impressive EDMS installation recently implemented at the Wyoming State Engineers Office (SEO) in Cheyenne, WY. Read More »
Bound contracts integrated into the digital inbox: Sparkasse LeerWittmund in Lower Saxony leverages the advantages of the overhead scanner
(case study and translation courtesy of Zeutschel GmbH)

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 ...

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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 »
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 »
WHITE PAPER: Delivering Consistent Quality Images with Mekel Technology Microfilm Scanners by Bob Zagami
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 »

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Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art

Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology

Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards

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

Danish Newspapers Travel the Globe Without Leaving Home

UScan Digitizes Engineering Data, Corporate Archives of Major Food Producer

Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with our Aging and Deteriorating Microfilm Collections

Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

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

Crowley Imaging Helps Carroll County Remember the Times With Microfilm Preservation

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

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

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Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art

Boston Symphony Orchestra Uses Leading-Edge UScan+ Technology

Archival Digitization of 40 Million Cards

Maryland Historical Society

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

Danish Newspapers Travel the Globe Without Leaving Home

UScan Digitizes Engineering Data, Corporate Archives of Major Food Producer

Daughters of the American Revolution

SmallTownPapers, Inc

Chancery Records Index

Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

One Man. One Machine. 26 Million+ Newspaper Images

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with our Aging and Deteriorating Microfilm Collections

Preserving the History of an Iconic American Leader

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

Wyoming State Engineers Office

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

Crowley Imaging Helps Carroll County Remember the Times With Microfilm Preservation

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

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

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Blog Post: What the FADGI %*#&!? Part Two: Is FADGI for Everyone?

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