Preferred Citation: Ekman, Richard, and Richard E. Quandt, editors Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley, Calif Pittsburgh?]:  University of California Press Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation,  c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5w10074r/

 
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Scan-and-Store Process: Scanner Operator

• Retrieve scan request from system

• Retrieve materials from shelves (enough for two hours of scanning)

• Scan materials and enter basic data into system

-Evaluate size of pages

-Evaluate grayscale/black and white scan mode

-Align material

-Test scan and adjust settings and alignment as necessary

-Scan article

-Log changes and additions to author, title, journal, issue, and item data on request form

-Repeat for remaining requested articles

• Transfer scanned image files to Acrobat conversion workstation

• Retrieve next batch of scan requests from system

• Reshelve scanned materials and retrieve next batch of materials

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Preferred Citation: Ekman, Richard, and Richard E. Quandt, editors Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley, Calif Pittsburgh?]:  University of California Press Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation,  c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5w10074r/