[padg] Negative/Slide Scanners Recommendations?

[Winston Atkins <Winston.Atkins@xxxxxxxx>]

As our library builds photography collections,
the Preservation Department increasingly finds that we need to digitize
strip negatives and slides. Probably like many of you, we're finding that
the more modern collections we're working with can be large, often tens
of thousands of images, and working on them a bit at a time isn't an option.
I'm writing you all to ask for any recommendations for scanners (strip
negative and/or slide) that we should consider for such collections. Right
now, I'm concentrating on 35mm format. 

And if you have any real life experience
with productivity rates and file sizes, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
I know that the impact on staffing, on other projects, and on storage will
be among the first questions I'll be asked, right up there with cost, if
my proposal doesn't address them. 
With thanks,
Winston
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Winston Atkins
Preservation Officer
Duke University Libraries
Campus Box 90189
Durham, NC 27708-0189

winston.atkins@xxxxxxxx
Ph: 919-660-5843     Fax 919-684-2855
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