Tag Archives: Digitization

“The Smithville Fiddler’s Jamboree and Finding My Calling”

Posted on March 25, 2022 by University Archives

Almost exactly one year ago, I fell victim to the soul-searching state of mind that enraptures every senior as they arrive at their last year. Age-old enigmas, such as how I was going to prove to my parents that an … Continue reading →

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Let’s Get Digital, Part II

Posted on February 15, 2022 by University Archives

In a previous post in May 2021, we discussed the use of vendors for digitization in the archives. This same month, we dropped off six collections, including William Everett Derryberry, William Brinker, Dave Johnson, the Upper Cumberland Institute, Tennessee Tech … Continue reading →

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Cookeville Mall Revisited

Posted on September 24, 2021 by University Archives

Tech Archives worked with vendors to perform our digitization on negatives, reel film and sound, and cassette tapes. Almost 10,000 negatives featuring the Upper Cumberland from the 1930s to the 1970s are currently being described and will be available online … Continue reading →

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The Eagle Online!!!

Posted on July 21, 2021 by University Archives

This summer, Tech Archives had yearbooks dating from 1926 to 2003 digitized and made text searchable. As mentioned in previous articles, scanning is time consuming and tedious. As a result, we used a vendor for the physical scanning while cataloging … Continue reading →

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Let’s get digital!!!

Posted on June 21, 2021 by University Archives

Tech Archive got an upgrade! We have been determined to create a digitization studio to assist us with digitizing some of our many unique materials. This does not easily come out-of-the-box, so we purchased materials piecemeal and worked on practical … Continue reading →

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Vendors and Digitization

Posted on May 14, 2021 by University Archives

On Tuesday, May 11, I dropped off some sound and video recording to a professional digitization service in Atlanta, GA. I dropped off these materials so that I could ensure they securely made it to the facility. The materials we … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Preservation, Tech History | Tagged Digitization, EscapefromAtlanta, gascrisis, Media, projectors, reeltoreel, TechYeah, Umatic | Comments Off