Digitization You could do your own scanning, of course.

Buy the latest equipment, get the best training, set aside staff time — lots of staff time — and get the job done. Eventually.

Or you could save money, months, and migraines by calling in a team already equipped and well-trained, who bring vast experience digitally imaging special collections and linking those scans to catalog records and other metadata. Correctly. Consistently. In many languages.

On-site at your facility or off-site at ours, when you choose Backstage Library Works for your digitization project, you get original-quality digital reproductions of photos, illuminated high-resolution images of slides and negatives, oversize scans of large-fomat materials, and the expert care and handling your special collections require.

With our focus on library clients, we can provide cataloging and indexing information the way you want. Metadata for your images will be created to fit your preferences, in simple text or XML format, to MARC, Dublin Core, or VRA Core standards, as basic or as comprehensive as you specify. We take pride in perfoming our services with a librarian's touch.

To improve accessibility, you can also enlist the services of our text conversion specialists. We leverage the latest Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to efficiently add searchability to your digital collection.

Of course, a machine can't always provide the intelligence your project needs, so we offer manual review services to guarantee the quality of your text, as well as textual markup services, which can make your documents compliant with TEI or EAD schema.

With us working behind the scenes, you can carry out that grand plan for digitization without disrupting your routines or cutting the efficiency of your staff. Even working on-site, we keep you posted on progress, but stay quietly out of your way.

And because the digitization, cataloging, and metadata will all be of the highest quality — guaranteed — there will be applause.

You be the star. We'll stay Backstage.

Catch the Backstage Crew at These Events

Illinois Library Association
2010 ILA Annual Conference
Sept. 29 - 30
in Chicago
Booth 712

Polaris Users Group
PUG 2010 Conference
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2
in Syracuse, NY
Booth 17

Backstage Purchases Preservation Service Center from OCLC

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