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The research room supervisor will decide whether your scanner meets the standards set by nara preservation programs. With rare childrens literature books, unique manuscripts and letters, antique maps, museum objects, herbarium specimens, photographs, oral. While our document imaging facility is highly secure, we understand that some clients have specific needs when it comes to their records. Archival supplies brodart has the archivalquality files and folders you need for safe document storage and photo storage, as well as archival storage boxes of every size and style. Nara guidelines for digitizing archival materials for electronic access january 1998. Buy 3 or more restorations and automatically receive a bulk discount. The crowley company is the exclusive north american distributor for zeutschel gmbh, the industryleading german manufacturer of a full line of largeformat overheadplanetary scanners. Smooth solutions has a reputation for excellence in the document imaging and digitization services industry. I sent a few test books to bound book scanning and a few other services, and we all agree that bound book scanning produced the best result and value.
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