Greetings and Happy New Year! 2010 was another great year for our company. Despite a bad recession, we managed to bring on new customers and continue delivering high-quality images to our ever-expanding customer base. Additionally, we announced a new microfilm scanning partnership with LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization for libraries and information professionals. …
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LYRASIS Partnership Expanded to Include Books on Microfilm, Segmentation Options
We are pleased to announce that Creekside Digital’s partnership with LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional membership organization for libraries, has been expanded in two key ways: Books on microfilm are now eligible for the Sloan-subsidized pricing under the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative; and Digitized newspapers may now be optionally segmented (organized) by year, month, or …
Just how many books are there? How about 129,864,880!
Yesterday, Google posted on the official Inside Google Books blog that, by their calculation, there are approximately that many books out there. From our perspective, wow, that’s a lot of work! Capturing books at the highest quality possible, as well as scanning microfilm and similar items such as manuscripts, ledgers, scrapbooks, et al, ad naseum, …
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services
Today, LYRASIS, the United States’ largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals, announced that Creekside Digital is now providing preservation-quality microfilm scanning services to LYRASIS members through the Mass Digitization Collaborative. Here is the text of the press release (official press release on the LYRASIS site here): LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to …
Santa Paula Historical Society Case Study
Background Organized in 1977, the Santa Paula Historical Society of Santa Paula, California is dedicated to preserving, protecting and perpetuating the history of the town and the surrounding area. Its founding eleven Directors were descendants of pioneers or long-time residents, and many of them continue to serve the Society today. When the Santa Paula Historical …
Mixed Bag
Greetings! The Baltimore Metro Area hit a new record temperature for today’s date with a high of 105 degrees. Yes — it was miserable, and we’re all hiding in the air conditioning. No break in sight, either. But just five months ago, we literally had five feet of snow piled up in the parking lot! …
Creekside Digital’s new website is LIVE!
Yesterday, we “flipped the switch” on our new website. The old homegrown site had served us well throughout the first part of our company’s existence, but we have aggressively grown over the past year and required something which better described our new capabilities to current and potential customers. Kudos to Cloud Nine Labs for working …
A Busy Summer
It’s been awhile since our last update to the blog. We’ve been heads-down with a lot of important digitization projects lately. About a month ago, we performed onsite scanning on a large job for a legal services company here in the Northeast. Currently, we have two large jobs in the shop. One is a 461 …
On NARA Publications & working with difficult film
Nobody has more microfilm than the US Government — and no one has created more public domain microfilm publications than the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA. In fact, Creekside Digital first ventured into the high-quality microfilm digitization industry as part of a software project built around NARA microfilm, and it continues to be …
‘Tis the Season . . . for Archival Conversions
What’s going on at Creekside Digital? Well, it’s unseasonably cold here in Maryland today. It was 12 degrees this morning and it’s up to a balmy 21 now. It’s windy too, and the wind chill has given rise to a Severe Weather alert for our area. Recently, we’ve been working on a pair of 35mm …