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Read More » 23,400+ Miles of Microfilm: Crowley Scans Social Security Records 1.2 Million Reels of Microfilm Scanned in Less Than Two Years with Crowley Digitization Services Over the past several years, The Crowley Company (Crowley) has been an effective partner with the Social Security Administration (SSA) on several massive inventory and digitizing projects that were successfully completed within budget and within record time thanks to the experience of Crowley’s Digitization Services team. In February 2017, Crowley worked on a massive microfilm inventory project to begin inspecting, creating an inventory and barcoding an... Read More » 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 » 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 » 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... Read More » 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 » 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 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 » 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 » 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 » The Life Photo Archive Sees the Light of Day via Crowley Digitization Services 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 » 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 » 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.... Read More » 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 » 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 » 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 » 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 –...