IDI Gets Van-tastic!

Hard on the heels of last month’s relaunch of the IDI Website, this month Innovative Document Imaging added a snappy new Nissan van to its operations. The van, pictured at left, is capable of transporting up to 125 boxes at a time. Look for the IDI van in your neighborhood soon!

Innovative Spotlight: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Innovative Document Imaging recently completed digitizing the historic grant files of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a total of over 650,000 pages from 300 boxes. The pages are now available in PDF text-searchable format impuissance cialis soft. The Mellon Foundation, which is headquartered in New York City, is one of the world’s leading private foundations. “The Mellon Foundation is known for nurturing advances in higher education, libraries, and scholarly communication, among other areas of interest, so this work is a natural fit for them,” said IDI President, Marty Tannenbaum. “We are extremely proud to have been associated with this project,” he added.

Innovative Solutions: Newspaper Digitization & DigiFind-It

IDI scanned over 58 years of the Weekly News from hard copies for the East Hanover Library in Morris County, New Jersey. The originals will be returned to the library this month and Innovative Document Imaging will be hosting the PDF images on its Digi-Find-It portal. Library patrons will have access to the fully searchable files via the portal shortly.

About 35 miles down I-287 in Piscataway, readers of the Piscataway Chronicle and Piscataway Review will soon have digital access to the back issues. IDI completed scanning of the local newspapers from 48 rolls of 35mm microfilm. The images will be available at the Piscataway Library later this month

IDI Digital Memory Media

IDI was in Parsippany and Old Bridge, New Jersey this past weekend for two very successful Digital Media Memory sessions. The sponsoring libraries get 20% of the sessions’ proceeds, which means that the 40 orders from library patrons eager to preserve their family memories will result in much needed funds for the libraries with more to come.

Look for these Digital Memory Media sessions at a library or community center near you soon.

• October 13, 2012 – East Brunswick Public Library
• October 20, 2012 – Plainfield Public Library
• October 24, 2012 – Long Branch Public Library
• October 27, 2012 – North Brunswick Public Library
• November 3, 2012 – Princeton Family YMCA
• November 10, 2012 – Monroe Township Public Library

Want to bring Digital Memory Media to your library? Please contact Marty Tannenbaum at 800.380.9058 or by email at [email protected]

With several large projects completed this month and several more on the go, I am especially grateful for the help and support of my family and friends. As always, thank you also to the Innovative Document Imaging team. Without the team’s hard work, none of this would be possible.

Have you seen the the Digital Memory Media commercial? It is running now through Christmas on Comcast in Southern Middlesex County, NJ on the Golf Channel, New Jersey’s Channel 12, the Vacation Channel, and Fox News. Please let me know what you think. You can reach me at [email protected].

Thank you for your business and warmest regards!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Sandy Stories

As noted in our storm update earlier this month, Innovative Document Imaging and the IDI team made it through Hurricane Sandy safely and with minimal damage. Some of our colleagues, clients, neighbors, and friends were not as lucky as we were. We thought we’d highlight a couple of their stories.

The cost of storm damage in the region is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars. This photo blog from NBC News highlights some of that loss in a very personal way. Please take a look

Belmar Historical Society

The Belmar Historical Society was 5 days away from the grand opening of their new museum when Hurricane Sandy struck the town. The museum was meant to be the crowning achievement of years of labor by the Society, which was set up in 1991 as the Belmar Historical Preservation Council to identify and preserve historic sites. In addition to the buildings and monuments, the council found a cache of historical documents in the basement of the local library. The documents included scrapbooks, blueprints, borough records, and 80-years worth of the local paper, the Coast Advertiser. The collection became the backbone of the museum.

The Museum, housed in a recently renovated space in the 100-year-old Union Firehouse Annex (pictured), was flooded. “We had 2 1/2 feet of water. Some collections were lost but we were able to save more than we lost,” said BHS president, Naomi Reissner.

When Reissner returned to her home about a week ago, among the waiting messages was one from Innovative Document Imaging president, Marty Tannenbaum, inquiring about Reisnner’s well-being “We had originally called IDI for a quote on digitizing the newspapers. I asked Marty if the microfilm of the Coast Advertiser which had been damaged in the flood could be restored.” The answer was affirmative and the microfilm is in the process of being digitized.

Sadly, the Museum opening has been put off indefinitely. Reissner and the Society had already applied for a State grant to pay for the cost of microfilming the remaining volumes of the Coast Advertiser and to make them publicly available through the Society’s website. Reissner also hopes to hold Digital Memory Media personal digitization sessions in support of the Society in the future. “People don’t think about their personal collections of photos and papers, but it is really important to preserve them,” she said.

East Hanover Public Library

Last month, Imaging Innovations highlighted IDI’s work at the East Hanover Library in Morris County, New Jersey. IDI scanned over 58 years of the Weekly News from hard copies and set up a DigiFind-It portal for patrons.

About IDI, Gayle Carlson, East Hanover’s director, wrote in an email that “they were good to work with and product is good and easy to use.” When asked whether digitization would play a larger part in contingency planning in the future, Carlson responded, that “Due to the economy, the library budget has been reduced, the storm does not play a part in that decision. Other than maintaining the local weekly paper in digital form,” there were no plans at this time for more scanning projects.

Carlson noted that the Library was “closed, without power, for over a week and our public internet is still down from the storm.” The Digi-FindIt portal will be going live soon.

IDI Digital Memory Media

Digital Memory Media’s Fundraising Program gives libraries and institutions a new way to raise money while also helping patrons preserve personal collections of text and media. This is a unique service that helps local communities keep their histories alive! Sponsoring libraries get 20% of the sessions’ proceeds.

The next Digital Memory Media session will be held:

• January 12, 2013 – Plainfield Public Library – 12-3pm

Want to bring Digital Memory Media to your library? Please contact Marty Tannenbaum at 800.380.9058 or by email at [email protected].

First, I want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving! I am extremely grateful to the IDI team for their perseverance in the face of all the difficulties that we faced in New Jersey in the past few weeks. To my family and friends, thank you for your love and support. As many of you know, there are still people in our state facing hardship as a result of Hurricane Sandy. If you can help, please consider giving blood or making a donation to the American Red Cross.

In good times or bad, I am always happy to hear from you. You can reach me at [email protected].

Thank you for your business and warmest regards!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Innovative Spotlight: Monmouth Medical Center

Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey is celebrating its 125th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the medical library at the large teaching hospital turned to Innovative Document Imaging for archive conservation. Among the items digitized by the library are 16mm films of the hospital from the 1940s through the 1960s, a scrapbook of photos of graduating nursing classes from 1900 to the 1950s, a bound volume of annual reports form the 1890s, as well as the official hospital centennial video shot in 1987 on 1/2-inch tape.

“The materials were deteriorating,” reported Fred Pachman, Director of the Medical Library at Monmouth. “The film had the vinegar smell that indicates deterioration and the annual reports were falling apart, so we are happy and relieved to have digital copies. And the IDI team were good to work with. They listened carefully and answered questions about the best preservation methods,” he said.

Unlike the clinical collections, which are used to educate residents and nurses, this historical material has been used for marketing, internal communications, and to update the centennial material for the 125th anniversary. “Everyone on staff appreciates the historical collections and the role our hospital continues to play in the medical heritage of New Jersey,” noted Pachman. About the project, IDI President Marty Tannenbaum commented that “IDI is honored to help preserve the history of our home state.”

IDI Digital Memory Media

Digital Memory Media’s Fundraising Program gives libraries and institutions a new way to raise money while also helping patrons preserve personal collections of text and media. This is a unique service that helps local communities keep their histories alive! Sponsoring libraries get 20% of the sessions’ proceeds.

Want to learn more? Watch our video >>>

The next Digital Memory Media session will be held:

• January 12, 2013 – Plainfield Public Library – 11am-2pm
• February 23, 2013 – Jamesburg Public Library – 12-3pm

Want to bring Digital Memory Media to your library? Please contact Marty Tannenbaum at 800.380.9058 or by email at [email protected].

This has been another exceptional year for IDI. I want to thank my clients for their business; my family for their love and support; and the IDI Team for their hard work.

Season’s greetings to one and all for a joyous holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

You can reach me at [email protected].

Warmest regards!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Happy New Year from IDI

The year has started with a bang here at IDI, with many of last year’s initiatives beginning to blossom and much more to come in 2011. Here’s hoping that this year will be one of prosperity and peace for all our clients, colleagues and friends.

Innovative Solutions: Media Archives

Innovative Document Imaging’s recently completed digital media archive for the MatawanAberdeen Public Library (MAPL) is all the rage. MAPL, the Middletown Township Public Library and the Monmouth County Library System partnered with IDI to create a fully searchable archive covering over 25 years of material from the Independent, the newspaper of record for the Bayshore section of Monmouth County. The media archive can be accessed at matawan.ididigital.com and can be searched by keyword, date range, etc. In a recent profile in the Independent (12/22/2010), MatawanAberdeen Library Director, Kimberly L. Paone, noted that “People are definitely using it. I’m receiving comments and compliments about the search engine, and just having access to that information is really helpful for our community.”

Update: Personal Digital Imaging

IDI’s Personal Digital Imaging Service, which partners with local libraries to offer professional digital imaging services to residents, is up and running at 2 New Jersey libraries and will soon be available at a third. The program allows individuals to preserve their valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials, while raising money for sponsoring libraries. Ten percent of all proceeds from the program are credited back to the libraries. IDI will be holding information/collection sessions at local libraries soon. In the meantime, learn more on our website, idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380-9058.

Happy 2011 to all! It’s our pleasure to be of service. Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and best regards!

Sincerely,

Marty Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Spotlight: The Hun School of Princeton

Established in 1914, The Hun School of Princeton is one of the nation’s best college preparatory academies. About 6 years ago, Mary Ann Fox, Hun’s Director of Curricular Technology Integration and Head of Library Services, approached Innovative Document Imaging to begin preserving school yearbooks. Since then, IDI has gone on to digitize many of what she calls the school’s “treasures,” including all of its newspapers and all the class files from 1914 to the present. “Now we’re scanning almost everything in the archives because having a keyword searchable database of material is invaluable,” says Fox. She notes, too, how important it is to be able to trust the company you are using to preserve your material. “IDI is extremely professional and they take great pains to make sure everything is done correctly. When you are sending out things that are irreplaceable, you need to be confident in the company you are working with. That confidence is an important part of what IDI provides.”

At Your Service: Library Document Collection

IDI’s Personal Digital Imaging Service will hold on-site information and document collection sessions at the East Brunswick Public Library on Saturday, April 16th, and at the Long Branch Public Library on Saturday, April 30th. This program allows individuals to preserve valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials with the same professional quality imaging once exclusive to institutions. Ten percent of all proceeds from the program are credited back to sponsoring libraries. To learn more, please visit idiimage commander cialis france.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380- 9058.

Retouch: Fordham Prep

IDI has completed two digitization and preservation projects at the Fordham Preparatory School, including digitizing the school’s nineteenth-century student records (1841-1900) and digitizing their entire yearbook collection, dating back about 90 years. “The electronic resources should prove themselves invaluable,” says Fordham Prep’s Louis Di Giorno. The school is currently working on a new edition of its history in preparation for its 175th Anniversary. “With IDI, we know that our irreplaceable documents will be handled professionally and with the greatest of care, adds Di Giorno.

It is hard to believe, but IDI will be celebrating its 10th anniversary on March 11th. I want to take this opportunity to express my utmost thanks to clients, colleagues, employees, family and friends for their support over the past decade.

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Japan Relief

Late on Friday afternoon, March 18th, Innovative Document Imaging received a call to digitize documents containing vital information for rescue and clean up efforts in Japan related to the nuclear reactors. Teams at the East Brunswick, NJ headquarters, and at partners Smooth Solutions in Lodi, NJ, and IDC in Michigan, worked round the clock from Saturday at 10:00AM until Monday at 8:00AM, when the material was uploaded. Over 36 hours, IDI digitized 1000 rolls of microfilm and 500 fiche slides, a total of 2,000,000 pages.

To contribute to the Red Cross’ Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief fund, please click here.

Preview: Glen Ridge Public Library

The Glen Ridge Public Library will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2012. In preparation for the centenary, the library has chosen IDI to digitize 100 years of archived material including newspapers, historic photographs, yearbooks and directories. “These are the only copies and they crumble to the touch,” notes Library Director, Jennifer Breuer. “We need to preserve these vital documents and make them more accessible and searchable for our patrons,” she adds. The project, which is in the funding stages, is being sponsored in part by the Glen Ridge Historical Society. “I’ve worked with IDI before at the Secaucus Library,” Breuer says, “quality and turn around time are amazing – they deliver an outstanding product.” (Photo from left: Jennifer Breuer, Marty Tannenbaum and Glen Ridge Historical Society President, Karin Robinson)

IDI Celebrates 10th Anniversary

IDI celebrated its 10th anniversary with a gala party for staff and guests. We were entertained by master illusionist, David Levitan. It was a wonderful party and a great celebration of our decade of accomplishments.

At Your Service: Library Document Collection

IDI’s Personal Digital Imaging Service will hold on-site information and document collection sessions at the East Brunswick Public Library on Saturday, April 16th, and at the Long Branch Public Library on Saturday, April 30th. This program allows individuals to preserve valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials with the same professional quality imaging once exclusive to institutions. Ten percent of all proceeds from the program are credited back to sponsoring libraries. To learn more, please visit idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380- 9058

Thank you and hearty congratulations to the IDI team for their Herculean efforts last month. Well done!

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and best regards!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

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The Start of Something Big

Innovative Document Imaging’s Personal Digital Imaging Service held it’s first two library document collection sessions last month. The initial response by patrons at the East Brunswick (April 16th) and Long Branch (April 30th) public libraries was extremely positive. “This was a wonderful start for our personal digital imaging program,” said IDI president, Marty Tannenbaum. “Now that the public has experienced this service; seen how convenient and effective it is, the program will grow and grow. At the recent New Jersey Library Association conference, we already had another 10 public libraries ready to sign on,” he said. Twenty percent of all proceeds from the program are credited back to sponsoring libraries. The program allows individuals to preserve valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials with the same professional quality once exclusive to institutions. To learn more, please visit idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty, (800) 380-9058.

Gotta Have Heart!

Our partner, Sarva Solutions, is a company with its heart in the right place. Sarva specializes in BPO in the publishing, legal, and health care sectors. The company provides IDI with data entry, cropping and image inspection. Sarva’s founder, Dominic Thomas, is an Indian entrepreneur who worked extensively in the U.S. for companies like Microsoft and Tata. Whenever Dom would travel back to India from the US, he was amazed by the poverty he found. When he established Sarva, Dom decided that helping would be part of the business model. Dom came across a home for the elderly run by the French Little Sisters for the Poor on a visit. “India is a very traditional society where the elderly are expected to be cared for by younger generations. As so many of our young people have left home to find jobs elsewhere, many of the aged were abandoned. And because of the shame, the problem remains hidden,” explains Dom. The home now cares for 200 men and women aged 75 and up, allowing them to live in dignity. With the help of companies like Innovative Document Imaging, Sarva provides many of the daily necessities for the home’s residents. In addition to financial and material support, Sarva employees are required to spend 15 hours per month at the home. “They bring their families to spend time with the residents on birthdays and the like. It’s important because the residents’ actual families don’t visit.” Advancement at Sarva is partially linked to volunteering. Of his time in the States Dom says, “America taught me how to give. Americans have such big hearts. I want to bring this to India.” His next project is working to alleviate female infanticide in rural India.

It was a delight seeing everyone at the NJ Library Association meeting this month. Thanks to the entire IDI staff for all their hard work.

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Innovative Profile: Larry Gaines

June marks the fourth anniversary for our VP of Operations, Larry Gaines, who joined the company in 2007 after a long career in records management at Schering Plough. Since joining IDI, Larry has focused on improving effectiveness. The team building process that he has implemented has resulted in greater productivity and improved efficiency. “When I came to IDI,” says Larry, “all the pieces were in place but the team was not functioning as a well-oiled machine. We took all the good pieces available, eliminated others, and began working as a cohesive unit.” His proudest achievement has been the creation of teams that can perform with the same professionalism and expertise offsite as in-house.

Because of Larry’s background in the pharmaceutical industry he knows the importance of records management in operations. “Records management is something that pharma does well,” he says. But because of advances in electronic documentation and document scanning, the pharmaceutical industry may be losing sight of the role micrographics still plays in overall records management strategies. “Many in the pharmaceutical industry are buying into the notion that electronic documents are archival, but we know that there can be data loss with platform changes, new infrastructure, etc. Electronic data can also be corrupted by viruses and other contaminants.” On the other hand, notes Larry, microfilm does not lend itself to these kinds of problems. If stored properly, microfilm can last hundreds of years. “The bottom line is that electronic documentation is an important tool but it can’t solve every problem.”

Larry lives in Irvington, NJ with his wife Vernellen. They have been happily married for the past 38 years and have one daughter.

Innovative On Site: University of London

Innovative Document Imaging begins a 250,000-image conversion project at the University of London for Gale Cengage. The project is being overseen by IDI’s library specialist, Michelle Drain. Scan operator Rachel Peters will be heading to the UK to complete the work.

Congratulations to VP of Operations Larry Gaines on his fourth anniversary with IDI and bon voyage to Michelle and Rachel who are heading off to London. As always, thank you to our entire staff for all their hard work.

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Innovative Preservation: Rutgers Law

Innovative Document Imaging (IDI) is assisting Rutgers University Law Library, Newark with two vital digitization projects focusing on critical chapters of American history. The first collection includes transcripts from New Jersey’s Lilley Commission, established to investigate the root causes of the 1967 Newark riots. The civil disturbances raged for 6 days between July 12 th and July 17th, leaving death, destruction and a changed nation in their wake. The Lilley Commission collection contains testimony from local politicians, dignitaries, police officers, legal professionals, community activists, clergy and other witnesses to the riots. The collection also includes the report of the Kerner National Advisory Commission on Civil Disturbances.

The second collection contains material for the landmark affordable housing suits known as the Mt. Laurel Cases. These cases had farreaching effects that reverberated throughout the nation. Decisions rendered in the cases placed a mandate on municipalities to provide affordable housing and this shaped land use policy nationally. The collection contains case files, depositions, briefs and trial memoranda. “Rutgers played a significant role in the Mt. Laurel Cases and we want to showcase how the policy developed,” says Sue Lyons, Reference and Government Document Librarian at Rutgers Law Library, Newark.

As Lyons notes, “these projects will allow the Law Library to open up material that normally would be available only in the rare book room to a much wider audience. We’re sharing really useful, historic information. IDI is making this possible; I am pleased with the progress so far.”

Funding for the projects comes from a grant by the National Historic Publication Records Commission, part of the National Archives. The material from the Lilley Commission will likely be available in the fall of 2011. The Mt. Laurel material will be available by the end of the 2011 or the spring of 2012.

Innovative On Site: Sadie Pope Dowdell Library

IDI’s Personal Digital Imaging Service will hold an on-site information and document collection session at the Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library, in South Amboy, NJ on Saturday, October 1st, This program allows individuals to preserve valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials with the same professional quality imaging once exclusive to institutions. Twenty percent of all proceeds from the program are credited back to sponsoring libraries. To learn more, please visit idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380-9058

I hope one and all had a glorious 4th of July. It is an exciting summer here at IDI, with fireworks of our own. Look for more news in every issue of Imaging Innovations. As always, thank you to the IDI team for their diligent efforts.

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news.

Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging

Innovative Profile: Michelle Drain

Michelle Drain is a busy woman. Lead project manager at Innovative Document Imaging since 2008, Drain travels the world developing and managing digitization projects for some of the world’s top libraries and biggest companies. “I came to IDI with my MLS from Southern Connecticut State fresh in hand; learning how to use the scanners was a bit of a challenge,” says Drain.

And learn she did. Drain has gone on to apply her library skills to projects worldwide. She’s currently managing a 300,000-page scanning project for Gale-Cengage at the University of London that we reported on in June. In New York City, Drain is managing almost 1 million pages of scanning in 2 separate projects. Then there’s the 5 million-page scanning monster for the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA that Drain has been overseeing since 2008. If that isn’t enough, she also assists with pharmaceutical industry scanning in Massachusetts and the UK.

Drain’s background and training gives her a distinct advantage. “I have an appreciation for the materials that comes across to other librarians and archivists,” notes Drain. “I speak the same professional language and this puts librarians at ease. They know that their project is in capable hands.” For her part, Drain is excited by the prospect of preserving rare materials and giving them a new life outside of rare book rooms. “With digitization so many more people have access to these irreplaceable collections. It’s a librarian’s dream!”

IDI Digital Memory Media: Fall Workshops in NJ

Digital Memory Media, IDI’s Personal Digital Imaging Service hits the road in the Garden State with dates in South Amboy, East Brunswick, Matawan and Plainfield. This program allows individuals to preserve valuable personal collections of print, photographic and a/v materials with the same professional quality imaging once exclusive to institutions.

Look for IDI Digital Memory Media on the following dates:

• October 1, 2011: Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library, South Amboy, NJ
• October 15, 2011: East Brunswick Public Library, East Brunswick, NJ
• October 22, 2011: Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library, Matawan, NJ
• October 29, 2011: Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, NJ

IDI Digital Memory Media credits 20% of all proceeds from the program back to sponsoring libraries. To book a Digital Memory Media on-site workshop at your library, please visit idiimage.com/digitization, or contact Marty Tannenbaum, (800) 380- 9058.

The summer sure has flown by! We’ve been busy preparing for some “heavy lifting” in the fall. Not only has IDI Digital Memory Media ramped up, but there are several newly expanded projects in our pharma division to look forward to. Thank you to the IDI team for their hard work, and a special thank you to Michelle Drain for her globetrotting these past months.

Be sure to check out the IDI website for our latest news

Thank you for your business and warmest wishes!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging