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Alex: Please do summarize. I have been getting a lot of requests to install a
public-use scanner as well. thanks! Ray Anne
alex ross wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
> We're thinking seriously of establishing a self-service scanning operation
> in the Stanford Art Library in response to user demand. We checked the
> ARLIS-L archives for past discussions of art library scanning and found an
> especially useful exchange from 11/98 in which seven or eight people
> responded to Ann Lindell's request for info. Most of the scanning set-ups
> described in that exchange were similar in their simplicity and the limited
> options that they provided to clientele--the idea being to encourage users
> to do a scan on the art library equipment and then take the image away via
> a zip disk, e.g., and manipulate it somewhere else--like the campus
> computer center, where more sophisticated hardware and trained assistance
> would be available.
>
> Most respondents to Ann's query reported having the following:
>
> * Mac workstation
> * Flatbed scanner, like an HP Scanjet
> * Zip drive
> * Photoshop (often an older version)
> * Usually access to the campus computer network so that images could also
> be mailed
> * Sometimes a b & w or color printer
> * Sometimes a slide scanner
> * Sometimes a time limit per session
>
> We wonder if this kind of configuration is still the norm? Have any really
> terrific but economical scanners come on the market since late '98 that
> anyone would recommend? How about scanning size? (Someone here has
> recommended that we get a scanner with an 11 x 17-inch capacity, but
> scanners with that kind of capacity seem always to be the high-end,
> expensive ones.)
>
> Would people who provide this service be willing to try to estimate how
> much time (both professional and support-staff) per typical week is spent
> assisting patrons? Is the scanning service usually charged for?
>
> Please respond to me or the list, and I'll try to summarize later.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Ross
> Stanford Art Library
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