digitization

Updating collections for higher quality images

By Emily Chicorli on November 19, 2014

One of the projects the Digitization Centre is embarking on includes rescanning photographs in the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection and the MacMillan Bloedel Limited fonds. The goal is to provide users with high quality images and update the metadata to meet new standards. The Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection documents the experiences of Canadians of Japanese […]

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How We Digitize: Multipage Scanners

By Emily Chicorli on October 28, 2014

Another machine that we use on a regular basis here at the Digitization Centre are our Fujitsu fi-6670A multipage scanners. The Fujitsu scanners are high-speed, sheet-fed machines that can scan up to 90 pages per minute on both sides, which is approximately 180 images per minute. These multipage scanners can handle a range of material […]

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Introducing the One Hundred Poets Project

By Emily Chicorli on October 14, 2014

In an earlier post in our How We Digitize series, I spoke with UBC Library conservator, Anne Lama, about her role here at UBC and at the Digitization Centre. Anne was here again a couple of weeks ago to work with students and the project leader of the One Hundred Poets project to determine what […]

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