Innovative Technology: Cloud Imaging at ITHAKA

ITHAKA, the home of the JSTOR electronic archive among other tools for the academic community, is moving to new offices in New York City and storage space is at a minimum. That’s where Innovative Document Imaging comes in. In order to save space, ITHAKA has opted for IDI’s Docubase Cloud Image Storage and Retrieval System for the majority of its paper files from 9 departments and sub departments.

The project, which is more than half complete, is already yielding benefits for ITHAKA. “The project is going quite well and I am very satisfied with what has been achieved so far,” says ITHAKA’s Sandy Gomez. “We’ve worked with the files in finance and we’re extremely satisfied with the searchability, the appearance of the files, and the OCR functions. Being on the cloud not only saves valuable real estate; it will improve access cross-departmentally,” he says.

When asked about working with IDI, Gomez is effusive: “Many vendors all but disappear on you, but IDI has been very hands on, extremely helpful, resourceful, very accessible.” Gomez is especially pleased with the IDI team’s thoughtful approach. “What I initially thought was going to be overwhelming and scary, with the assistance of IDI has been smooth and easy. The IDI team has been beyond helpful, especially in breaking technical things down in layman’s terms,” says Gomez.

Digital Memory Media A Big Hit With Library Patrons

IDI Digital Memory Media preservation workshops spent October barnstorming through New Jersey. In addition to the session at the Sadie Pope Dowdell Library in South Amboy, Digital Memory Media visited East Brunswick, Matawan, and Plainfield. “Library patron response has been overwhelming. It is gratifying to know that the public gets how valuable a service this is and trusts us with their media collections,” says Marty Tannenbaum of IDI. In the case of Sadie Pope Dowdell, the library invited IDI back to run a workshop for its board members. “With libraries getting 20% of revenues from the media conversions, this is a real win-win. I think the public gets it and the proof is that we’ve had to hire extra help to handle the Digital Memory Media orders. From here, the sky’s the limit,” says Tannenbaum.

To book a Digital Memory Media on-site workshop at your library, please visit idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380-9058

A special thank you to the IDI team for all their had work with the ITHAKA document conversion project and last month’s Digital Memory Media Workshops. Well done!

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Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging