Aaron the Librarian

September 22, 2006

MF scanners and fun

Filed under: Work — AaronTheLibrarian @ 9:24 pm

So, okay, by now you know I get jazzed over the strangest things.

Had patrons come in today (I mean c’mon who would be jazzed over that?!) who wanted to use a microfilm collection of ancient newspapers (yup, more than 15 years old, so they’re ancient) 1860-1880, to be exact (oh, I meant 150+ years ancient) :)

Anyway, MnPOW has a new microfilm digitizer which totally rocks (a Cannon Microdax) and was simple to show & use.  I made an outline of the process (the outline seems pretty complex to me at the moment, but looking at the computer+scanner setup it’s following a wizard)

Long ramble short here…  showed patrons how to use it, the were impressed at the ease and happy to have it digital instead of print - and it was fun!

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