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Book Digitization

May 26, 2011

- A technician for Harvard College Library's Imaging Services scans a book in the basement of Widener. By Meredith H. Keffer

- Imaging Services digitizes a wide variety of materials, including this letter signed by Booker T. Washington. By Meredith H. Keffer

- Technicians use a weighted chain to maintain the distance between the camera and the page being digitized. By Meredith H. Keffer

- A technician arranges the pages to be scanned. By Meredith H. Keffer

- Glass laid over the book pages keeps them flat. By Meredith H. Keffer

- Scanned pages are compared with original pages and post-processed to match the original as closely as possible. By Meredith H. Keffer

The Widener digitization lab.

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