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Oct 30

The Case for Microfilm in a Digital Age

In August 2024, Iron Mountain shared this article, sharing that following a survey of the thousands of archived Hard Disk Drives in their stores, 20% of them (a staggering one in five) have become unreadable. Whilst the article focuses on the music industry and the potential loss of audio recordings... read more →
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Zeutschel and DATAWIN GmbH join forces

Zeutschel and DATAWIN GmbH, both market leaders, are united by a steadfast dedication to quality and service, backed by decades of experience. This year, the Zeutschel Partner meeting was held on the 8th and 9th of July at the company's Tübingen-Hirschau site. Among the many exciting developments announced was the... read more →
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Microfilm Market Update by Paul Negus

The last 12 months have seen huge changes in the microfilm marketplace. On November 1st 2022 EPM announced to the world that they were ceasing all microfilm trading operations from 31st December 2022. At the same time Agfa ceased all microfilm production operations. Genus purchased all of the remaining EPM... read more →
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Mekel Technology Production Microfilm Scanners take UK Market by Storm

On 13th December 2021 GENUS released a news item reporting that GENUS had been appointed the UK & Ireland distributor of Mekel Technology products from The Crowley Company for the UK & Ireland. https://www.genusit.com/the-crowley-company-taps-genus-to-represent-mekel-technology-scanners-in-uk/ The product range includes one production microfiche scanner, the MACH7, and 3 production roll film scanners... read more →
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FBHVC partner with heritage digitisation specialists Genus to transform archives within the historic vehicle community

We are delighted to announce we have formed a commercial partnership with the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC) to offer a bespoke digitisation service to the many organisations; museums, clubs, engineering companies and individuals who need to preserve their records safe and secure but equally importantly, make them... read more →
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Zeutschel ScanStudio & Uscan+HD Win Platinum Awards at the Modern Library Awards 2022.

The awards are given by librarians in the United States. Our long-standing sales partner The Crowley Company accepted the awards and received an additional Award: "Service of the Year" for its digitisation services. The Modern Library Awards were created to recognize the top products and services in the library industry. Applications were... read more →
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Genus Green Initiatives

During the COVID infested year of 2021 Genus kept busy with a raft of green initiatives to lower the impact of our activities on the environment. We underwent a major refurbishment project in conjunction with the Coventry & Warwickshire Green Business Programme - Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Programme |... read more →
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The University of Stirling Upgrade their Digitisation Facilities with the Zeutschel A1 Scanstudio

Genus has recently been selected to supply The University of Stirling with a Zeutschel A1 Scanstudio. This upgrade of digitisation equipment will provide a new resource for researchers across the University’s Academic departments (in particular Arts & Humanities) and will also create a new ‘digitisation hub’ for heritage organisations and the... read more →
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Digital Archiving to Microfilm

Digital obsolescence is becoming a greater problem day by day. Digital resources become no longer readable because either the physical media, the reader required to read the media, the hardware, or the software that runs on it, are no longer available. It is only a small proportion of our day... read more →
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New Hybrid Digitisation Solution From Genus

HDS brings together three individual components that have been tested and approved by cultural heritage organisations to create a solution ideal for use with modern archives This new hybrid solution from Genus brings together two paper scanning methodologies – faster rotary scanning and photographic overhead capture – both linked by... read more →
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Martin French joins the Genus team

We are very excited that Martin French will be supporting our excellent team here at Genus, as an Imaging Consultant, bringing over 30 years of imaging experience with him. Martin began his career after gaining his qualifications in photography. He then joined Dixons selling photographic equipment. Having a passion to... read more →
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Goobi in use at Genus

Goobi is a post-processing and workflow application for digitisation projects. It is completely configurable with the ability to add or remove modules according to the workflow requirements of the organisation. Goobi is employed globally by many institutions to provide a robust and seamless control system for mass digitisation projects. It... read more →
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Recollect introduced to the UK and Ireland

Recollect is pleased to announce the appointment of Genus as reseller for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Recollect is proud to collaborate and partner with Genus, an industry leader with many years of experience providing services to the cultural heritage sector. They will play a vital role in expanding the reach... read more →
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Liberate your Microfilm Collections

After our recent article on Intelligent Microfilm Genus has been approached to talk about the scanning of Microfilms specifically for Universities, Schools, Libraries, Genealogists and Researchers. Microfilm and Microfiche hold millions of amazing academic and archival documents, providing unrivalled sources of historical data. Unfortunately, the access to these Microform documents... read more →
Apr 20

Intelligent Microfilm Scanning

Many employees are now working from home during these difficult times. It has been relatively easy for organisations to set up emails, business systems and video conferencing etc. to enable this home working to happen. Once this current situation is over, we fully expect the remote work force to be... read more →
Mar 30

Genus Business Statement: COVID-19 Update

On Thursday 19th March 2020 we released a business statement detailing our responses, messages and new practices in light of COVID-19. Here is our latest update on the current situation regarding our business operations. On Tuesday 24th March 2020, in line with UK government instructions, all non-essential Genus staff were... read more →
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