The Thursday

Some updates:

There was a problem with one of the arms of the yet-to-be-named scanner. This is what Sara sent the service people at Atiz: When changing arms last week to scan a largish scrapbook, our digitization student was unable to loosen one of the bolts.   Upon inspection the grommet had slipped into the shaft and thus when turning the bolt she was turning the holding cup also - nothing to turn against!  (I hope that description makes sense.)    We ended up having facilities saw the bolt off.  It is working fine having the arm attached with 3 rather than 4 bolts, but we are  cautious now when changing arms.

So they will be sending us a new arm!

We have also been having some problems with the ABBYY software that we are using to read the Wallulahs and make them key word searchable. I've called customer service and haven't gotten any answers. They emailed me back once, but we're still having problems. I'm waiting for another reply and will update when an answer comes.

I'm still editing the Wilbur letters and matching with transcriptions. I can't tell if everything has been transcribed yet? 

The First Week of Summer

I've made a lot of progress on the Wilbur Letters project. All the scanning is done. Now I am going folder by folder, matching the transcriptions and labeling the letters. This part is going faster than I thought it would. I'm hoping this will be done by the end of next week, but we shall see.

I also used the new scanner this week...and it's amazing! I spent awhile getting it set up but after that the scanning went smoothly. Very excited to keep using it.

Have a good weekend!

The Summer

Today was my first day of work here for the summer! Sara and I helped Maureen with the scanners and softwares.

I kept working on the Wilbur letters, and will hopefully get through it all soon so I can move on to new projects!