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Universities, schools and
libraries have been slow to digitize relative to other institutions, yet they arguably comprise the most natural and important
market to capitalize on such technology. For-profit enterprises producing comparatively disposable data have moved in this
direction for purely economic reasons, so why shouldn’t educational institutions and libraries that have financial survival
and much more at stake do the same? Outsource your archive collection and academic/scholarly related projects to ShadowCounsel…
because it’s smart, easy and inexpensive.
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Why Should Educational Institutions Digitize?
• Save money: Realize an immediate and long-term return on investment by converting your files to electronic format.
Believe it or not, the cost of scanning a printed page, microfilm or microfiche is cheaper than that of photocopying one,
yet an image lasts a whole lot longer than paper and can be printed over and over again. It’s ludicrous to use photocopiers
in this day and age.
• Save time and increase productivity: Empower your students and yourself with the
ability to rapidly search for and retrieve information.
• Portability/Storage: Wouldn’t you rather
store hundreds, thousands or millions of instantly retrievable source material on a CD, DVD or computer hard drive than in
file cabinets or boxes requiring the prohibitive cost and aggravation associated with physical storage space?
• Research
and organization: Equip graduate students to better research and organize the data they must distill for your own academic
publishing demands.
• Rapid dissemination of printable material: E-mail course reading to your students
instantaneously.
• Flexibility: Add and quickly distribute student reading material in the midst of a
given academic term.
• Evaluation: Store student papers securely with or without your evaluative annotations
in a portable, always legible and instantly retrievable format.
• Quality: There is no such thing as
a less than pristine hard copy image printout.
• Preservation: Convert your own academic paper files
to electronic digital image format. Establish an intellectual legacy that will last for your children and grandchildren,
former students and the wider academic community.
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Why
Should Libraries Digitize?
• Increase
access to books, journals, newspapers, maps, photographs, legal and medical publications, course materials, government publications,
film x-rays, MRI/CT scans and other original source data.
• Preserve material of extreme importance or
value, such as historical manuscripts/archives.
• Improve access to collections and collections’
records.
• Provide access to digital collections on a web site.
• Reduce damage to
original materials.
• Rapidly search for and retrieve information when necessary.
COPYRIGHT - All works published in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain. With specific regard to
academic coursepacks you wish ShadowCounsel to process published since 1923, or any other material that requires permission
of use from the copyright holder and/or applicable publisher, we do have an account with the Copyright Clearance Center and
can therefore secure permission for you in many instances. If you choose to secure copyright permission through your university
bookstore, library or another entity, however, it is your obligation to obtain and provide proof of copyright clearance to
ShadowCounsel for texts used in your classes and like forums.
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