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Why Your Large Drawings Can’t Wait For Digitization

Managing the Unmanageable: Digitizing Large-Format BlueprintsFor 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 critical, the physical medium has always been a distinct liability.Paper blueprints [...]

Why Your Large Drawings Can’t Wait For Digitization2026-10-17T17:03:57+00:00

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 [...]

Lessons from Coyote vs. Acme2026-10-17T16:19:42+00:00

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 [...]

Handwriting Extraction2026-09-04T15:18:51+00:00

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 more complex than simply placing a document on [...]

Preserving History: The Art of Digitizing Fragile Artifacts2026-09-03T20:06:53+00:00

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 [...]

Protect your collections with digitization2026-03-27T13:42:42+00:00

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 [...]

Rocking Atlantic City and Shaping the Future of Preservation: Our NJLA/NJASL 2026 Recap2026-03-04T19:45:02+00:00
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