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Microfilms -
The National Archives holds thousands of rolls of microfilms which
may be photographed or photocopied. Photographing involves taking
pictures of the microfilm on a monitor. Sometimes this produces
better results than photocopying, sometimes not. The National
Archives is in the process of installing digital microfilm copiers,
which will mean that in future digitized documents will be transferred
to a USB flash drive or similar device. This will provide the best
quality. The machines are presently wrapped with plastic awaiting
installation and we expect that they will be up and ready within six
months (October, 2008).
Below are the products available using photocopying or photography.
1) Simple photocopies
can be made and mailed or converted to searchable PDFs and emailed to
the clients. If there are many documents the following options may make
more sense.
2)
Simple Website containing responsive documents. Each image on each page of
the website is downloadable from the website to your computer as a JPG that can be printed out on any size
paper on any printer. No renaming of documents - images are labeled with
the name given by the camera. This website is kept active for at least two weeks.
This work usually takes me a little more than an hour to complete with less than 200
individual images.
3)
Simple Website
plus
Searchable
Unadjusted PDF. This is a Simple Website (above) plus the images are converted
to many JPGs and a single PDF
which is "text recognized" and then sent to the client via e-mail or downloaded from the website or
sent via mail as a CD or DVD. This work usually takes me two hours.
4)
Labeled and Adjusted
Website. Each document is labeled and appears in
chronological order followed by a short descriptor
and images are color-corrected and sharpened. This work usually
takes me under three hours.
5)
Labeled and Adjusted
Website
plus
Searchable adjusted PDF. This work usually
takes me under three hours.
Final Product as a CD or DVD. Clients usually request
that I burn a CD or DVD of the the digitized documents as a website;
medium-sized JPGs for printing; small-sized JPGs; and often PDF files.
I usually charge a little extra for burning the original RAW files
because these can require more than one DVD and take some time to burn.
Rates:
I charge $290.00 per seven-hour day. If the work requires
additional time at home, this will have to be negotiated.
All copying media, such as photocopy paper, CDs, DVDs and Mini-DVs are paid for by the client.
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