Mapping Movement Continues!
Posted Nov 20, 2013
Peter Nekola (Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library) and I have been hard at work...Tag: Digitization
Newberry maps scanning commences
Posted Mar 9, 2011
The Better Light 8K-HS scanning back is now calibrated, and all systems are go, so we begin scanning the first batch...
Dunhuang Team visit NUAMPS in Evanston
Posted Sep 16, 2010
Today is the official welcome for the Dunhuang Team! We started the morning at 1800 Sherman where Patricia Todus welcomed them...
National Geographic Dunhuang Feature
Posted May 25, 2010
I’m off to Dunhuang for a conference at the end of June. This will be the last trip for this consultation...
April 2010 training
Posted Apr 13, 2010
We began the final phase of training for the Consultation and Team Training grant with the Dunhuang Academy today. We spent...
Winterton on NPR
Posted Jan 21, 2010
Featured on WBEZ’s Worldview today was an interview about the NU Library’s Winterton Collection. David Easterbrook, the George and Mary LeCron...
Evanston in 1876
Posted Jul 28, 2009
As part of our ongoing work with the Northwestern University Archives and Northwestern University Library Digital Collections we get the opportunity...
Winterton Collection, and the NUL digital repository goes live
Posted Jun 25, 2009
From today’s NU NEWSCENTER: Rare Africa Photos Go Online, Open New Options for Africa Research EVANSTON, Ill. — This week —...
In-cave training
Posted Jun 10, 2009
The rig is up and working in the caves, and the DA team is adapting to the new system very quickly....
First stop, Toronto…
Posted Jun 2, 2009
The rest of the high-resolution digitization training team (myself, Chris Wallace and Jim Prinz) has departed today in Harlan’s wake,...
19C Evanston map digitization complete
Posted May 14, 2009
Comprised of 36 full res (250 Mb) Better Light Super 8K-HS scans, the 600 dpi digitization of the NU Library’s...
Map Digitization
Posted Apr 28, 2009
This morning I had the opportunity to do some work with Stefani Foster in our Digitization Studio. We have been setting...