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Digital Imaging Technology and Equipment for Libraries, Museums,
Laboratories and Field Work
- AIA affiliates with Boston Photo Imaging to offer outsourcing and facilities management services.
- AIA introduces AIAXact ACCESS, the first comprehensivbe integrated digital lab aimed at smaller institutions and those with limited budgets.
- AIAXact Select Repro Workstations, is an interchangeable set of component parts that
allows the end user to select and construct a repro workstation that meets their needs and budget.
- AIAXact Boston Rocker Book Cradle is the first adjustable-angle cradle that is designed to improve productivity.
- The I2S Book Scan is a high-resolution, extremely fast desktop planetary book scanner that doesn't require lights or a computer.
NEWS
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | AIA installs large-format component book scanning system at University of Chicago Library, Rare Books and Preservation.
2005 was a busy and exciting year, which saw AIA designing systems and installing technology and equipment at the National Geophysical Administration, Wisconsin Historical Society, Indiana Historical Society, Texas A&M English Department, Alaska State Library, University of Toronto, Center for Jewish History, Cal State (Sacramento), Cal State (Merced), Duke University, Florida State University, University of Georgia (Athens), New York State Library, National Technology Transfer Center, Yale University, Royal BC Museum, National Library of New Zealand, Columbia University, Philadelpha Free Library, University of Central Florida, Case Western, University of North Texas, US Army CID, University of Wisconsin, The Ringling Art Museum and others. The Scan Group begins digitizing the Merrifield Collection. The private collection consists of 25,000 glass plate negatives. |
| AIA partner Boston Photo Imaging produces 37 custom museum quality framed prints of Boston Red Socks (The World Series Champions) memorabilia in 24 hours. Bronx libraries weep! | |
The Scan Group goes on site at The Boston Athenaeum to shoot images for a book celebrating the library's Bicentennial. BPI signs contract with Harvard Divinity School to scan thousands of slides. |
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| AIA staff member Mike Bevans visits Japan to demonstrate his color correction software at the behest of major imaging companies. | |
| AIA goes to the circus! FSU's Ringling Museum of Art asks AIA to design a self-contained studio to document 17,000+ objects as they are being installed in the new Tibbals Learning Center in Sarasota, Florida. The Center will provide a permanent home for the models and collection of Howard Tibbals. In addition to thousands of documents, posters, broadsides, and other circus memorabilia, the new center houses Howard Tibbals's huge and exact 3/4" scale model of a traveling circus. The model has over 17,000 individual animals, people, performers, car trains, tracks, tents, and spectators. The table holding the model is 3800 square feet; 13 school buses could park on the model table. The circumference of the table is 1.5 football fields. | |
| AIA installs Digitization Lab. complete with automated workflow via OPUS at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| AIA utilizes a most unusual space (a balcony in the multi-story open atrium, in full view of library patrons) to house an AIAXact 305 Book Scanning system for the Rare Books Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia. | |
| Penn State and McGill University Libraries install first AIAXact 4060DV Repro Workstations in their libraries. | |
| The award for the furthest installation of AIA-based BetterLight Repro System and HID lighting, goes to staff member Jerry Skapof for training over the Net and by phone for the National Library of New Zealand.....not an easy task when the trainer is talking on Monday and the trainees are listening on Tuesday. | |
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