L01 Detailed Descriptions

L01 Digitization Service for Loose Materials ^

High quality digital imaging (captured at 300 dpi) for complete collections of loose materials where the emphasis is on legible content.

Eligible source materials

• Stable and flattene
•  No fasteners
• Up to 17" x 26"
• Organized in order if the images need to be treated as one DRS object. 

NOTE: Especially fragile materials and/or extremely brittle, thin or cockled paper may be considered eligible following a review by a conservator and/or Imaging Services staff. Such materials may require additional charges for handling.

Pricing and delivery

• Image capture @ 300 dpi
• Delivery via Harvard Page Viewer for text pages
• Delivery via Image Delivery for photographic prints

Note for text pages

• Order minimum of at least 1,000 pages

• Blank pages will be ignored (unless instructed otherwise).

• Pages will be shot in the same orientation, determined by the first image in the document.

Note for photographic prints

Suitable for photograph collections that are not light sensitive and that can be photographed under glass. Capture procedures are well suited to uniform prints in stable condition (e.g., modern emulsions with similar color, density and/or size). All items photographed at a single capture resolution. We sometimes refer this as "rapid capture services" for photographic prints done in our D20 studio.  We also offer "custom capture services" for photographic prints in R01 category.

• Items photographed flat under glass.
• All items photographed at a single capture resolution, typically 300 ppi.
• Images of items batch processed with a single general use color and tonal correction.
• Automatically cropped with narrow border.
• Items photographed in bright continuous lighting (2,000 lux +/- 200 lux).

Workstation setup

Contact us

For information about how to evaluate, prepare, and deliver materials for digitization, please contact imagingservices-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu.

Examples digitized via this service