Crossroads Document Services is the scanning partner for the Indianapolis Public Library Digitization Project. As part of the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration, the Library is digitizing and cataloging historical collections from many different organizations, including our community’s fine arts groups such as the Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. We’ve been scanning for the Library for nearly a year now, and the process is exacting and time-consuming, involving high-resolution color scanning to produce images as close to the original as reasonably possible.
Each scanned page image is transcribed and cataloged by the Library staff before the collection is ready for online viewing. It takes months to prepare and complete each organization’s documents, and we’re just now seeing the fruits of our labor. The Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra collection has been posted on the Library’s Digital Indy site for viewing. (The page flip view is really cool!)
Meaghan Fukunaga, the Library’s Director of Digitization, brings us new material nearly every week, and we’re learning a lot about the history of Indianapolis as we help preserve these documents from the past and make them accessible for the future.
