I’m scanning again this afternoon. I’m on my second series of broadsides from the Literary House Press at Washington College. In the scanner now is a broadside of a poem by Eduardo C. Corral, designed by Jehanne Dubrow and printed by Mike Kaylor in 2013.
This morning I found the Poetry Broadside Collections in the Lewis & Clark Digital Collections. These digitized broadsides include “twentieth century poetry broadsides, most by William Stafford, but some of Stafford’s peers like Robert Bly, Charles Simic, and Primus St. John.” This digital collection provides me with a precedent for my own digitization project, as I have yet to find another poetry broadside collection available online. This collection displays all the broadsides on a single page with only the name of the poem and, when available, the date it was published. There’s no information about the printers, publishers, or the occasion for printing. My hope is to include that information on my digitized broadsides as well as display them in a gallery format. The Lewis & Clark scans often maintain the edges of the broadsides, something I feel is important, as those edges give one a sense of depth, size, and texture of the paper. This is a great little digital collection with some wonderful examples of broadsides with text and illustrations.
Yesterday afternoon, I began digitizing broadsides from my own collection and from loans from Washington College’s Literary House Press. Here’s a sneak peek of the first scan.
The following photos are from visits the June 2016 Digitizing the Cultural Record class at the Rare Book School took to the University of Virginia Library’s Digital Curation Services, the audio/visual collections of the Library of Congress (LoC) Packard Campus, and the mass digitization of botanical collections at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
A Cruse large-format scanner at Digital Curation Services of the University of Virginia Library
Scan that revealed ink-redacted writing at UVA Library’s Digital Curation Services
Entrance of the Library of Congress Packard Campus in Culpepper, Virginia
Introduction to some audio/visual formats at LoC’s Packard Campus
Spike Lee’s master’s thesis at LoC Packard Campus
Film canisters at LoC Packard Campus
Silver nitrate film cold storage, LoC Packard Campus
One of three copies of three minted copies of the gold Voyager record, LoC Packard Campus
Damaged vinyl up for assessment, LoC Packard Campus
Vinyl being cleaned, LoC Packard Campus
Machine that scans vinyl grooves, LoC Packard Campus
Broken vinyl that will be scanned for sound, LoC Packard Campus
Collections Manager Rusty Russell with a botanical specimen, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Botanicals being prepared for scanning, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
A new scan of a botanical specimen, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Botanicals going through the scanner, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
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