Robert Stibravy, Digital Projects Librarian at UBC Library, reviews the key equipment used the the Library's Digitization Centre. The presentation features images from current and past projects as well as a review of different methods used in digitization.

1. Our Equipment
And Its Uses
Robert Stibravy, Digital Projects Librarian

2. Photographic workstation, used primarily
for large, flat items up to 40”x60”

3. Shot as two page spread then split in
post-processing

4. The vacuum is used to flatten the item to
help eliminate focus and shadowing issues

5. Wide format scanner – up to 54” (and
as long as the file size will allow)

6. Why not the TTI? Avoid any possible
aberrations in GIS use

7. Very good for fragile materials

8. Used for fragile, bound textual
materials

9. Pages are shot in sequence

10. A bound
serial
There needs to be an
adequate gutter

11. Large format flatbed scanner

12. The flatbed does an excellent job due
to its design

13. Standard size flatbed scanner

14. The flatbed delivers high fidelity

15. Microform digitization

16. Microfilm
The image quality will
depend on the film
quality

17. The scanner can accept various sizes
of fiche

18. High speed document scanner

19. “Standard”
textual
documents
The Fujitsu scans 90
pages/minute duplex

20. Laboratory
notebooks
Even with good quality
the metadata will need
to be transcribed

21. The “old school” are often in dire
need of digitization

22. Digitized as a WAV file with
derivatives made as needed

23. This one is a U-matic

24. This one is from the “Westland”
project

25. This model can interface via USB or
RCA connector

26. The original is encoded as an uncompressed
WAV and derivatives made as needed
Dr. Sidney H Zbarsky (1920-2002)

27. Some sites to enjoy:
ž UBC Library Digital Collections
• http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/
ž British Columbia Bibliography
• http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca/
ž British Columbia Historical Newspapers
• http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca/