Hi, Amanda    3/31/2009 Amanda Triepke <[log in to unmask]>

Several ideas--
Check with the rare book room at the University of Florida.

Look up "large format printing" in the yellow pages. That's the term 
for billboard printers. They're hurting for business these days, to 
judge by the billboard ads along Philadelphia area highways. Maybe 
they'd give you a non-profit break on the cost in exchange for good 
PR?

Also, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (which preserves lots of huge 
architectural plans) runs one of those big Cruse scanners as a 
Regional Digital Imaging Center and may know about others closer to 
you.   http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rdic/index.html

Karen
PS May I recommend for your library--the DVD "The Curious Mister 
Catesby"?  See  http://www.catesbytrust.org/

>Date:    Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:58:35 -0400
>From:    Amanda Triepke <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Large Format Scanners
>
>We are looking for large format flatbed scanners to scan large 
>newspapers and maps in our collection.  Most that we have been able 
>to find have been about 12" x 18" scan bed size and we are looking 
>for something larger.  Does any one have any ideas on where to look?
>
>Amanda Triepke
>Curatorial Assistant
>Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
>Seminole Tribe of Florida
>Phone: (863) 902-1113 Ext. 12229
>Fax: (863) 902 - 1117
>

-- 
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia,  2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , 2008
http://www.americanswedish.org/, http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
http://www.nj.gov/state/museum/see_come-into-new-world.htm
Exhibition guide available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
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