Good morning everyone, I forgot to mention this in my initial email, but if you happen to know an individual or group who has used or currently uses any of these items (such as a genealogy group, a local museum, or an archive in the next town over), please feel free to forward the information request to them. Additionally, I will be sharing the feedback that we receive with the server for those of you who are curious about the results. I haven't received much feedback yet, but I hope what I can provide will be helpful to some of you on the server. Thank you all for your help! -Caitlyn Tanner, and the rest of The Hosford History Center and Lawrence Archives staff Caitlyn Tanner '21 Scholar in Residence Olivet College Hosford History Center and Lawrence Archives Twitter<https://twitter.com/oc_archives?lang=en> Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/oc_archives/?hl=en> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ocarchives/> 320 S. Main Street Olivet, MI 49076 Email: ctanner@olivetcollege.edu<mailto:hmellino@olivetcollege.edu> ________________________________ From: Michlib-l <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of Caitlyn V. Tanner via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 12:00 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org <michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: [Michlib-l] Equipment and Software Feedback CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Olivet College. Do not click links or open attachments unless you verify the sender and know the content is safe. Hello everyone, The Hosford History Center and Lawrence Archives at Olivet College are in the beginning stages of digitizing our collection, and we would greatly appreciate some feedback on our chosen equipment and software before we purchase them. Some background information on our institution and collection: we are a small to medium sized archive that focuses on collecting and preserving the history of Olivet College, and to a lesser extent the town around it. Our collection is fairly diverse, containing both loose and bound full-sized newspapers, yearbooks dating from the late 1800s to the early 2000s, loose paper documents, regular sized, oversized, and panoramic photographs, bound and loose college catalogs dating back as far as the 1840s, and a variety of 3D items, such as clothing, trophies, and sports equipment. In order to digitize our collection, we have chosen the following equipment: * The Bookeye 5 V3 Book Scanner (for bound items, as well as fragile items that would be damaged by a flatbed scanner) * The Epson Expression 12000XL Photo Scanner (for photos and loose paper items) * A Nikon D3500 DSLR Camera (for items that cannot be digitized via a scanner) Additionally, we have chosen PastPerfect Version 5 as our collections management software, Omeka.net to host our digital files and exhibits online, and ABBYY FineReader PDF as an OCR software to transcribe our documents into machine readable text. For those of you who have used any of this software or equipment: Do they work well? Are there any major problems you’ve encountered? Are there any alternatives you would suggest over these? Thank you all in advance for taking time out of your day to help us! -Caitlyn Tanner, and the rest of The Hosford History Center and Lawrence Archives staff Caitlyn Tanner '21 Scholar in Residence Olivet College Hosford History Center and Lawrence Archives Twitter<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foc_archives%3Flang%3Den&data=04%7C01%7Cctanner%40olivetcollege.edu%7Cd5b001f7688746f20f8608d951e127cf%7C2311b3aea55d4dd7b538ca8428328874%7C0%7C0%7C637630849770476594%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=UBDn6fWyuItCweewD77OVhYBNBq1nWFigvc3HIX93g0%3D&reserved=0> Instagram<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Foc_archives%2F%3Fhl%3Den&data=04%7C01%7Cctanner%40olivetcollege.edu%7Cd5b001f7688746f20f8608d951e127cf%7C2311b3aea55d4dd7b538ca8428328874%7C0%7C0%7C637630849770476594%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=hyYiRafzgjZEyqAu2QLZhRyuNiMHgUGdSLgjjB7Z9qc%3D&reserved=0> Facebook<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Focarchives%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cctanner%40olivetcollege.edu%7Cd5b001f7688746f20f8608d951e127cf%7C2311b3aea55d4dd7b538ca8428328874%7C0%7C0%7C637630849770486549%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=k8COkmhOcKUNiMwTALR%2BJ238MicKlcPXMQBPfTmF4Rk%3D&reserved=0> 320 S. Main Street Olivet, MI 49076 Email: ctanner@olivetcollege.edu<mailto:hmellino@olivetcollege.edu>