[OpenGLAM] Book scanners?

Sun Feb 16 18:18:28 UTC 2014

I lived in Sweden many years and we had a network to share scanners,
expensive printers and theater lights. It was a way to share expensive gear
and tools who were idle many months every year.
Ana

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:

> On 16 February 2014 17:33, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Should not be a great idea to share scanners? I mean, why need all the
> > institutions to buy an own scanner? Maybe this list could work as a
> place to
> > share between places located relative near to each other.
> > It should be economical sound and logic.
>
> Yeah, we'd be very happy to share.
>
> > Ana
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11 February 2014 00:20, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anyone on this list have any book scanner recommendations (or
> the
> >> >> opposite)? Budget around £10,000...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > You'd probably get a few more suggestions if you spelled out your
> >> > requirements in a little more detail.  High volume? (what's high
> volume
> >> > to
> >> > you?) Low volume? Destructive or non-destructive? Fragile books?  What
> >> > size
> >> > books?
> >>
> >> In general, this is for scanning historical source data.
> >>
> >> Volume: current project is 500,000 pages.
> >> Non-destructive: in at least some cases, the source material is unique.
> >> Fragile: possibly
> >> Size: random, but generally bigger than A4 (probably not bigger than
> >> A3 per page, though).
> >>
> >> > etc, etc  Even little things like giving your budget in a commonly
> >> > understood currency could help.
> >>
> >> By "commonly understood currency" I guess you mean dollars. $15,000ish.
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