Patricia,

A lot depends on your equipment, what you intend to use the scans for, and how much storage space you have available. Glass plate negatives can generally be scanned on a flat bed with a transparency adaptor (the light comes from the scanning lid rather than from the base). Glass plates can benefit from being scanned at very high resolution (2000 DPI+ depending on your scanning capabilities), but this also means huge file sizes. For some great examples of scanned glass plates check out the Nebraska State Historical Society's site at http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/photos/digital/index.htm -- Jill Marie Koelling there has done some great work. You can also send me an email or give me a call off-list and I can give you some more resources.

Hope this helps!

Trevor Jones
Project Coordinator
Illinois Digitization Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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At 11:11 AM 6/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Can anyone provide me with specific recommendations for scanning glass
negatives or direct me to someone who can?  We have approximately 5000 we
want to process and are seeking advice on the best way to handle this.  Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Yours Sincerely,

Patricia Davis-Perkins
Coordonnatrice - Numérisation des collections/Coordinator - Collections
Digitization
Bibliothèque, archives et services de documentation/Library, Archives and
Documentation services
Musée canadien des civilisations/Canadian Museum of Civilization
Tél : (819) 776-8456
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