![]() However, researchers frequently desire JPGs, and the Bizhub employs an auto-generated file naming convention that cannot be modified. See Appendix A for the details of our local standards which were informed by the University of Colorado Digital Library’s Digitization Best Practices and by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative’s (FADGI) most recent draft of Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials. The Bizhub is capable of producing archival quality master files it will scan up to 600 DPI and can produce TIFF files. Therefore, staff members frequently complete them using the Bizhub printer/scanner/photocopier located in the Special Collections and Archives Department. However, most requests do not contain these kinds of materials and many require a fast turnaround. Requests that include scanning oversized and/or non-reflective materials are completed on specialized equipment (a Bookeye 3 overhead scanner and an Epson 11000XL flatbed scanner) located in our Digitization Room. ![]() Staff must also accession and process a steady stream of newly acquired materials and a substantial backlog of older materials, as well as prepare for and lead multiple visits to the archive each term by classes of students and groups such as university alumni. During each of the last two fiscal years these staff members created an average of 11,000 digital files while scanning materials from our collection to fulfill patron reference requests, which are received daily. The Special Collections and Archives Department at Washington and Lee University contains 2.5 FTE staff in addition to its department head.
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