January 2022

2021 has passed and we are all praying that 2022 is the year the virus passes as well. We want to wish all our customers, prospects, and suppliers a belated healthy and happy New Year!

As we begin the New Year IDI is in full production. We will be kicking off two on location Publishing projects in the Northeast at a historical society and a museum. The collections include rare and valuable books, manuscripts, and artifacts.

Raritan Public Library in New Jersey has contracted with IDI for digitizing a historical collection of local newspapers that will be available on a DigiFind-it platform in April. IDI has also been awarded a large imaging project for a prestigious Midwestern University including 1,000,000 pages of historic documents, VHS tapes, 16mm movie film and 35mm slides.

IDI is initiating a marketing campaign to all the Public Libraries and historical societies in the US as IDI houses a nearly complete collection of all the US City Directories that IDI can deliver by region city or town, in a digital searchable and or on microfilm. IDI hosts hundreds of DigiFind-it web sites that we have created the digital content for including: local newspapers, yearbooks, and other local history that the city directories can be added to. Or a new portal can be developed for your library or historical society.

City directories are excellent for locating people in a particular place at a particular time and should be one of the first places searched for clues about ancestors. The directories were annually updated, list where an ancestor lived and worked and can help you locate them in census years. Additional benefits include:
· Tracing addresses in City Directories helps locate other documents-draft cards.
· City Directories differentiate between people of the same name as they often list-occupations, marital status, and employers.
· Addresses for churches, cemeteries and businesses may be listed as well as officers and leaders of organizations.

IDI will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the Public Library Association Conference in Portland, Oregon in March as well as at the New Jersey Library Association Conference in Atlantic City, NJ in June. IDI’s Director of Sales Jordan Baron will lead a panel discussion for ARMA NJ (Association of Records Managers & Administrators) in March. The topic at hand is: “Digitization: Navigating the Pandemic in Virtual and Remote Environments”.

Have a look at our latest post on “Today in History” on our Instagram page:
Innovative Document Imaging “Today in History”

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November 2021

Team IDI wants to wish all our customers, suppliers , prospects and their families a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday!

In this Covid challenging time, the demand is greater than ever for virtual access to digital files. We want to take this time to give thanks for being in position to expand our staff, facilities, and infrastructure to deliver a host of digital conversion services with optional cloud hosting.

This month we have begun the digitization of hundreds of boxes of pension files for a government entity and lab notebooks, engineering drawings and thousands of videos for a communications company. We are also completing medical records for a Doctor’s Office, yearbooks and research records for three New Jersey Universities and HR records for an IT employment company. in the UK we initiated a project scanning newspapers at the British Library and we also recently completed a digitization project for a major theatre Collection in London.

In October we exhibited and sponsored at the well attended Association for Rural and Small Library Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada. Our conversion services and our DigiFind-it Web portal for displaying and easy searchability of local history were very well received. In March we look forward to sponsoring and attending the Public Library Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.

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Fall 2021

We have reached the fall season and schools are finally open the leaves will soon begin to turn and IDI is gearing up for a busy finish to 2021.

IDI is currently working on 3 lab book scanning projects for 2 pharmaceutical companies and 1 major research company. We are also starting another pharmaceutical clinical research imaging and indexing project in Northern California.

In the UK we are in the process of digitizing five projects for three publishers which include historic theatre documents, university dissertations, pamphlets, manuscripts, newspapers and fragile books.

IDI has the capability to capture large format maps and in October we will begin a project digitizing large presentation boards for a high profile University. IDI also recently completed the world’s largest private collection of historic Maps housed in London at the Royal Geographical Society. See video here: Royal Geographical Society

Our popular DigiFind-it Web based platform that quickly and easily searches historical content continues to evolve with new features and functionality. We have recently added two more web portals, including one for the Association for Public Art in Philadelphia that will house the digital images that IDI scans from minute books.

IDI’s Connecticut facility production of microfilm from images has seen a steady increase the last few months. Microfilm is a stable, secure backup as well as a physical asset. We believe the increase is the result of the large number of mortgage refinances that County Governments are mandated to back-up the scanned images to microfilm. In these unstable times microfilm still plays a pivotal role. IDI Shelton, Ct. operation video: Ebeam Video

IDI is looking forward to sponsoring as well as exhibiting at the Association for Rural and Small Libraries Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada from October 20-23 both in person as well as virtually. ARSL Conference

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July 2021

IDI wants to send our prayers to all the families that were impacted by the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida. Please donate to the Red Cross redcross.org as they are providing the necessary housing and resources for those displaced.

IDI starts off the summer with a 2,000 video film to digital conversion for a major communications company. Feel free to review the following video describing our 16 and 35mm video conversion services. IDI Video Film Services

The Newark Public Library partnering with the Morristown Public Library has contracted IDI to start the conversion of the historic Evening Herald News Newspapers from microfilm and this collection will be available and fully searchable on IDI’s popular DigiFind-It platform. We have also added the Yacht Club of Sea Isle yearbooks to our quickly growing DigiFind-it client list.

IDI’s DigiFind-it new “admin” feature was recently added to a well-known organization in New York City and we will also be adding 200,000 images of new content to their website. This feature enables the library, archive or institution a way for their users or “admin” to add additional metadata to their portal.

In the UK we have started a 200,000 image monograph scanning project for a well known publisher from a University in London.

In June and July, IDI received numerous large government microfilm output from image projects where we will utilize our E-Beam units that produce the industry’s highest quality microfilm.

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