Why Your Large Drawings Can’t Wait For Digitization Managing the Unmanageable: Digitizing Large-Format Blueprint For decades, the construction, manufacturing, and union sectors have relied on the same cumbersome tools: heavy blueprint tubes, massive flat-file cabinets, and oversized folding tables. While the information contained in architectural drawings, engineering schematics, and facility maps is [...]
Lessons from Coyote vs. Acme
The Ultimate Legal Discovery Challenge: Lessons from Coyote vs. AcmeIn the highly anticipated film Coyote vs. Acme, the world’s most resilient and unfortunate predator finally takes his grievances to court, suing the Acme Corporation for decades of defective gadgets, faulty anvils, and explosive mishaps. While the premise offers brilliant comedic potential, it also presents [...]
Handwriting Extraction
Somewhere in your collection right now, there's a ledger, a register, or a box of correspondence that hasn't been opened by a researcher in years — not because it isn't valuable, but because no one can search it. The handwriting that makes these materials so rich and personal is the very thing that keeps [...]
Preserving-History The Art of Digitizing Fragile Artifacts In the quiet, climate-controlled rooms of archives and museums worldwide, a meticulous revolution is taking place. Historians, archivists, and technologists are uniting under a shared mission: to immortalize our most delicate cultural treasures before time, decay, or disaster can claim them. Digitizing fragile artifacts is far [...]
IDI will be at Archives * Records 2026 Conference, New Orleans!
Society of American ArchivistsNew Orleans, LAThursday, July 30 – Saturday, August 1Visit Josseline Gonzalez, digital sales specialist, at booth #513.
Protect your collections with digitization
In the high-stakes world of information preservation, a single lost document can erase decades of institutional history, while a poorly digitized archive renders critical data inaccessible to the very researchers who need it most. I have seen libraries lose entire collections to mold and medical facilities lose vital patient records to water damage because [...]
Rocking Atlantic City and Shaping the Future of Preservation: Our NJLA/NJASL 2026 Recap
Rocking Atlantic City & Shaping the Future of Preservation: Our NJLA/NJASL 2026 Recap The energy was high last week at the Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City for the NJLA/NJASL 2026 Conference! From February 17th to 19th, our team was stationed at Booth #220, ready to talk about the intersection of library history [...]
