UC Riverside & California Digital Library Digitize Nearly 6,000 Photographs from Jay Kay Klein Papers

From UC Riverside:

The California Digital Library and the UCR Library recently partnered to digitize nearly 6,000 photographs from the Jay Kay Klein papers – and completed the task in less than two days.

“If we had done the same project in-house, it would have taken us several months to do,” said University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble.
UC Riverside is the first among the entire UC system to employ this specialized workflow with proprietary object holders designed by Pixel Acuity. The company has used the process with previous clients that include the Smithsonian Institution and Stanford University.
According to Mandeville-Gamble, this project demonstrated that non-book content can be digitized en masse at an affordable price by working with outside vendors.
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“A standard has been set here, one that we will strive to meet in our future efforts to digitize comparable collections,” stated Eric Milenkiewicz, digital initiatives program manager.
This was the first in a series of pilot projects to use Pixel Acuity’s specialize
d mass digitization process to make more of the UCR Library’s non-book collections available online. For this inaugural project, Milenkiewicz selected 35mm negatives from the Eaton Collection’s Jay Kay Klein papers (MS 381),documenting the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) from 1960-1971.

The 6,000 images from Jay Kay Klein Collection should be available on Calishpere very soon.
See Also: Fan Photographer Leaves Collection, Estate to UCR (August 28, 2014)

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