“Again, archivists note the excellence in ArcaSearch
image-capture technology as well as the extremely accurate research
system specifically tailored for their needs."
News Archive
ArcaSearch announces new facility to meet customer needs.
ArcaSearch part of Association of College and Reference Libraries national conference.
ArcaSearch teams with customer to deliver the news during a snowstorm.
ArcaSearch provides technology for Diário de Notícias
Newspaper Digitization Project.
“MAX” returns from mission to preserve fragile
Portuguese-language newspapers.
ArcaSearch part of “Archives*Records/DC 2010
ArcaSearch demonstrates digital photography image-capture system and our unparalleled “G2 Research System”
Across the country, county government officials are looking to ArcaSearch for solutions to a pressing dual-faceted challenge: preserving one-of-a-kind original documents and, at the same time, providing greater access to public records. For example, in the Western energy-producing states of Colorado, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, county clerk and recorders are pressed to protect records while providing increasing requests for access to them. In recent weeks, ArcaSearch team members have demonstrated our digital photography image-capture system and our unparalleled “G2 Research System” at statewide county government conferences in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Bozeman, Montana. Utah officials can expect us at their annual meeting Nov. 16-18 in St. George.
County officers universally comment on the exceptionally sharp digital photography images captured by the ArcaSearch process, usually comparing them to less-satisfactory flatbed scanner images.
Meanwhile, ArcaSearch is responding to needs in higher education and research libraries by presenting solutions to special collections digitization projects. Again, archivists note the excellence in ArcaSearch image-capture technology as well as the extremely accurate research system specifically tailored for their needs. ArcaSearch was proud to attend conferences of the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association in Boise, Idaho.
ArcaSearch team members can provide you with a Web-meeting to demonstrate precisely how our technology works for clients in local government, higher education, non-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies. We’re certain you’ll be impressed.
Why should ArcaSearch host your archive?
- It often is the most cost-efficient method because ArcaSearch serves a variety of public- and private-sector customers and can pass “scale-of-economy” benefits to clients.
- You can conserve your own IS/IT resources.
- As technology is in constant change, current technology is continuously monitored by ArcaSearch. Updates to your archive are correctly identified and applied to your archive by ArcaSearch staff so that access to your archive remains current and problem-free.
- You remain in contact with ArcaSearch staff – a highly trained and experienced resource for your organization.
- You’ll stay “ahead of the curve” – because ArcaSearch staff consistently monitors your archive you will be confident there won’t be caught by a time-consuming and productivity-wasting retrofit of your archive technology.
You are invited!
You are invited to visit with the ArcaSearch team during the
75th Annual Meeting of the
Society
of American Archivists Aug. 22-27 at the Hyatt Regency
Chicago. Stop by Booth 201 to learn about ArcaSearch
services to higher education, not-for-profit groups, archivists
working in the private sector and government agencies at every
level.
ArcaSearch offers high-quality digitization services with its
process-patented photographic image capture, and enhances the
digital archive via its accurate and powerful research system.
We promise you’ll be impressed by our two-minute demonstration.
While you are there, please do register to win a free Apple iPad
2 courtesy of ArcaSearch.
ArcaSearch Sales and Marketing Director Tim Sixta, East Region
Sales Manager Jeff Ruprecht and West Region Sales Manager Peter
Fox look forward to answering your questions about creating
accessible, keyword-searchable digital archives and
demonstrating the system that has won high praise from dozens of
professional archivists.
See you in Chicago!
Arcasearch announces new facility to meet customers needs
ArcaSearch is pleased to announce the opening of a new
10,000-square-foot product center to meet the increasing demand
from clients across the country for our quality digital
archiving services. With the goal on enhancing customer service, the new site
will expand ArcaSearch’s Minnesota-based production facilities
and increase our research-and-development capabilities. The
existing Paynesville location will continue to serve more than
1,000 ArcaSearch newspaper-publisher clients and newspaper trade
associations, as well as other specialized customers.
The suburban Minneapolis facility is in Elk River, located on
the new Northern Lights commuter-rail system connecting to the
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. In addition to
expanded production and R&D capabilities, the new site will
provide ArcaSearch with drive-in warehouse space for
climate-controlled archival drop-off and pick-up.
ArcaSearch has served customers in the U.S., Canada, Europe,
Africa and the Mideast for more than 20 years. Our clients
include colleges and universities, local government agencies,
libraries and museums, Fortune 500 companies, trade
associations, and charitable and other not-for-profit groups.
ArcaSearch part of Association of College and Reference Libraries national conference
ArcaSearch is off to Philadelphia for the 15th national conference of the Association of College and Reference Libraries (ACRL), March 30-April 2. ArcaSearch lends its support to archival professionals through its regular participation in national, regional and state gatherings.
ACRL, is the largest division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of more than 12,000 academic librarians and other members. The group’s goal is to enhance “… the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.”
ArcaSearch has served higher education for two decades with its specialized digital archiving services and unique, Internet-based research systems. Compare the truly remarkable quality of ArcaSearch archiving and research systems with other imaging options, and draw your own conclusions.
For those attending the conference, we invite you to visit Booth 738 to learn first-hand how ArcaSearch can benefit your library and institution. And while you’re there be sure to register to win the brand-new iPad 2!
ArcaSearch teams with customer to deliver the news during a snowstorm
Many ArcaSearch clients are surprised by the breadth and
depth of our company's experience and expertise -- we've worked
with the ancient scrolls, historic materials dating to America's
pioneer era to the modern daily newspaper. Currently, ArcaSearch
provides valuable technology services to the newspaper industry:
nearly 350 newspapers rely on us to provide "e-editions" to
subscribers, more than 1,100 newspapers depend on ArcaSearch for
Internet-based research platforms, and we partner with three
statewide newspaper trade associations in a variety of business
activities.
But the ArcaSearch emphasis is always on the individual customer
-- such as a newspaper publisher faced with adverse weather
conditions.
When the "weather outside is frightful" recently, ArcaSearch
teamed with a Wisconsin Newspaper Association member to deliver
the daily edition to subscribers.
A significant Jan. 17 snowstorm in southern Wisconsin closed
schools early and created hazardous driving conditions. Seeing
the developing problem, Jim Furley, circulation director of the
Daily Jefferson County Union, went for help to ArcaSearch,
the six-year WNA business partner. In 2005, ArcaSearch provided
the technology for WNA to move its nearly 40-year-old Clipping
Service into the digital age, and later was involved in
establishing the association's long-term business agreements
with the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Department of
Public Instruction, said Executive Director Beth Bennett.
More than 40 WNA member newspapers offer a digital edition to
subscribers with ArcaSearch technology, she added.
"Is it possible to get the e-edition 'turned on' free for
today's paper only?" Furley asked Cal Sixta, ArcaSearch CEO,
early Monday afternoon. "We are having a big snowstorm, it's
drifting and we're not able to deliver all of our rural papers."
Sixta "flipped the switch" in a matter of minutes.
"I really like how we can turn this on 'free mode' during a
snowstorm," a relieved Furley said later. "Our rural roads are
in bad shape and we don't want the carriers injured. We just had
a reporter run out the door to cover a semi-car crash. These
aren't the type of roads to be driving on."
This isn't the first time ArcaSearch came to the aid of a WNA
publisher caught in a serious snowstorm. The first such
event with a WNA member occurred several years ago WNA
First Vice President Pieter Graaskamp, publisher of the Eau
Claire Leader-Telegram, asked Sixta to do the same thing when a
major blizzard brought a large portion of northwest Wisconsin to
a halt.
A word-searchable archive ensures that history is alive, relevant and meaningful for ArcaSearch clients – frequently beyond their own expectations.
Many clients tell us that they didn’t anticipate how much their
organization members – or alumni and students – would fully
appreciate the on-line, word-searchable archive. One of
the clients we heard from is editor of The St. Paul Union
Advocate, the official publication of the Saint Paul Regional
Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. The Advocate has been published
continuously since 1897. It long has been recognized as one of
the leading labor publications of its kind.
“Prior to ArcaSearch’s work to create a digital archive of The
St. Paul Union Advocate, our archives existed in only two
places,” says Editor Michael Moore. “(They were) in my office
and the Minnesota History Center. People who wanted to search
our archives often had to come into my office while I was
working, which was a negative experience both for them and me.
What’s more, using the bound archive of the Advocate to do
research on a specific topic was difficult. We don’t have an
index of topics or a directory. Oftentimes, research required
paging through old editions one at a time, hoping to stumble
upon what you were looking for.”
Michael continues: “The biggest development to come out of
ArcaSearch’s digital archive of the Union Advocate is that our
members are getting excited about labor history, about their
union’s legacy. It’s so easy to search for your name or your
union local’s name – so much easier than paging through old
issues, hoping to see a photo or headline you connect with.
“And that excitement about labor history is contagious – it’s so
easy to share with our friends and fellow members what you find
in the digital archive. The potential is limitless, and I think
we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of what’s possible
with the digital archive.”
To visit the archive, go to
http://mn.aflcio.org/stpaulunions/index.cfm?action=cat&categoryID=559E3C78-738E-42A6-9DCD-C174522891BA
and click on “Union Advocate Digital Archive.”
As of today members of the Wabash family
(alumni, students, faculty and staff) can now log-on and search, browse or just wander
aimlessly through over 100 years of The Bachelor.
No voice speaks louder or more convincingly for ArcaSearch
services than a pleased client. And we’re particularly delighted
when appreciative comments are made spontaneously.
We recently learned that Beth Swift, archivist at Wabash College
in Crawfordsville, Indiana, used her
Dear Old Wabash blog site to share her institution’s
experience in creating a digital archive of The Bachelor, the
Wabash College student newspaper.
“As of today,” Beth wrote, “members of the Wabash family
(alumni, students, faculty and staff) can now log-on and search,
browse or just wander aimlessly through over 100 years of The
Bachelor.”
She continued: “While at a conference of the Society of American
Archivists I saw a company that was doing just what we needed
done, digitizing and serving over the Internet large runs of
student newspapers,” Swift wrote in her blog. “Of course, a
project like this would be costly so for the next several years
I spoke with everyone I could about how wonderful it would be to
have this for the Wabash family. Although it has been a long
time coming, I am so pleased to announce the most incredible
project of my career at Wabash (so far) and my delight at its
debut.”
Wabash College writer Jim Amidon explained in a college news
release that the online Bachelor archive is accessible from the
“Alumni and Parents” page of the college website and is
password-protected. The college community can access the site
using normal usernames and passwords, and alumni who wish to
browse the archive use their alumni services accounts. In early
November all alumni were sent a mailing announcing the new
archive.
The springboard from concept to reality was provided to the
college by a generous gift from alumnus Jon Pactor and his wife,
Andrea, Amidon reported.
“Andrea and I believe in print, and we want The Bachelor always
to be printed,” said Jon Pactor. “It is not just a newspaper,
but it is a tangible symbol of our Wabash family. It makes us a
stronger, more vibrant community. But, not everyone can have a
printed copy of years gone by. We are pleased that through a
digitized Bachelor, all of us can have access to a good part of
the Wabash life of the last 102 years so that we better can know
our history, repeat it, and sustain it.”
We at ArcaSearch thank Beth and Jon and Andrea Pactor for the
opportunity to serve Wabash College.
To read more, visit Beth’s blog at
http://blogs.wabash.edu/dear-old-wabash/2010/11/02/a-brave-new-world/
and Jim’s report at
http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=8454.
ArcaSearch provides technology for Diário de Notícias Newspaper Digitization Project
ArcaSearch is honored to be involved in the world-wide
sharing of the Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization
Collection managed by the Claire T. Carney Library of the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The
Portuguese-language newspaper archives are part of the larger
Ferreira-Mendes
Portuguese American Archives held at the institution.
The archives detail the history of generations of emigrants to the U.S. from Portugal. Today, genealogists, researchers, academicians and students, rely on the archives for a historical, cultural and political perspective, according to Carney Library librarian-archivist Sonia Pacheco.
ArcaSearch has provided the technology to preserve and protect these historic newspapers in a digital format to be shared wherever the Internet is available, and to make the entire archive word-searchable – of course it helps to have knowledge of Portuguese but with an estimated 260 million Portuguese speakers, it is the fifth or sixth most-spoken language in the world.
“My experience is that ArcaSearch has been very easy to work with,” Ms. Pacheco said. “The staff is simply fabulous.”
The ArcaSearch mobile unit – “MAX” for “mobile archive express” – recently was on location in California to digitize fragile, historic pages to add to the archive. Building on a 20-year history of digitizing similar delicate materials, ArcaSearch created MAX to work on-site when it is impractical or too risky to transport delicate materials.
Fifteen distinct new segments were recently added to the project, and Ms. Pacheco anticipates another eight to nine will be included over the next four to five years. Those Portuguese-language newspapers are held in Hawaii, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Beginning in the late 1800s, the Portuguese immigrants to the American settled in Massachusetts and New England to ply their fishing skills while others went as far west as California to work on cattle ranches, she explained. The Carney Library archives help genealogists, historians and language scholars document the incorporation of the Portuguese into the U.S.
In late November, she will travel to the Azores to introduce the newspaper digitization project at a biennial conference of Azorian archivists, librarians and records managers. She describes the project as “a world-wide resource.”
While the application of ArcaSearch technology to the newspaper archive it the most important aspect of the partnership, Ms. Pacheco said there was one other aspect she particularly appreciates: “I must commend ArcaSearch for working with us as a state (government) institution, which is not particularly easy to work with” from the standpoint of policies and procedures. “All of our interactions with ArcaSearch and its staff members have been positive,” she added.
To learn more about the project, visit http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/paa/diario.html.
“MAX” returns from mission to preserve fragile
Portuguese-language newspapers
“MAX” has returned from a trip to the West Coast – but it
wasn’t for a surfing vacation or touring the Napa-Sonoma wine
country. Rather, MAX was preserving a delicate segment of
American history in the form of a collection of rare and fragile
Portuguese-language newspapers held in a private collection in
San Leandro, south of San Francisco.
ArcaSearch images of the collection now have been incorporated
into the online archives Diário de Notícias maintained by the
Claire T. Carney Library at the University of Massachusetts at
Dartmouth. The archive began as a digitized version of a
regional paper known locally as the "Portuguese Daily News,"
which served the vibrant Portuguese-American community in
Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England and the East Coast.
ArcaSearch was selected by the Carney Library to create the
archive of Portuguese-language newspapers dating back to 1885.
As just one sector of its clientele, ArcaSearch serves hundreds
of U.S. and Canadian newspapers and three American statewide
newspaper trade associations.
Because of the fragile nature of the San Leandro collection, it
was necessary for MAX to carry ArcaSearch technology to
California. MAX, the ArcaSearch mobile archiving studio, is
equipped with custom-designed equipment to scan and archive
sensitive documents on site without stress or damage.
For information on Diário de Notícias, visit
http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/paa/diario.html.
ArcaSearch part of “Archives*Records/DC 2010
ArcaSearch was on the scene during “ARCHIVES*RECORDS/DC 2010” – the joint annual meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGRA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) – August 10-15 in Washington, D.C.“This annual gathering is recognized as the premier educational event of the year for archives and records professionals,” noted Cal Sixta, chief executive officer of ArcaSearch. “It was a pleasure to help support the SAA mission while sharing information about our unique services and benefits with the dedicated members of SAA.”