More than an open scan track Since its first pre-launch showing at CeBIT 2013 the SCAMAX 8x1 has already been voted product of the year by the readers of Postmaster-Magazin in Germany and came runner up at the 2014 DM Awards in the High Volume Imaging Product of the Year... read more →
Aug
06
May
18
Walk into any professional digitisation studio capturing heritage/library material and you are most likely to see a mixture of specialist scanning equipment and copy stands using DSLR cameras. The development of the CMOS capture sensor has been quite phenomenal and this is mainly down to the vast quantity now in... read more →
Mar
24
As a small organisation we use digital data day in, day out. Of course we do. Everybody does. However what do we do about those really important documents that we have to keep forever – lease documents, property title deeds, employee records, pension files, contracts and legal documents? As a... read more →
Mar
24
Not names you would normally expect to hear in the same phrase but there is a reason. A recent enquiry from a client led to the installation of a Wicks & Wilson C-Drive X Aperture Card Scanner at The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (RAFBBMF), based at... read more →
Feb
24
Genus is proud to report on the installation of a book2net Spirit Advance book scanner for self-service use at the University of Birmingham library. Here, Genus discusses the project with Elaine Lewis, Service Development Manager. Background University of Birmingham Library delivers services to over 9 libraries on 4 different sites.... read more →
Feb
11
In a continuation of its close relationship with Fujifilm, Genus are proud to announce it is the UK partner for the Fujifilm Archive Services long term information storage platform. Using brand new high density Fujifilm tape storage media and a state of the art clean room secure storage environment Fujifilm... read more →
Feb
10
Genus recently attended a Digital Preservation Coalition event at the British Library called “What I wish I knew before I started.” This one-day conference brought together a group of leading practitioners with the next generation of archivists, records managers and librarians to discuss the challenges of keeping digital collections. Digital... read more →
Feb
10
The company behind some of the most popular public and production library and heritage digitisation systems is pleased to announce the launch of its latest product, the K71 camera. The K71 is set to revolutionise the use of high resolution DSLR cameras in the heritage sector. Currently the majority of... read more →
Dec
23
When you start out on a digitisation project you need to ask some key questions and the priority of these maybe different for each project. Consider why you are doing this and what will the end goal be. It could be that the content is high use and as such... read more →
Dec
09
2014 sees Genus celebrate its 40th anniversary of supplying archival imaging solutions, and as we enter our fifth decade we are delighted to announce a new member to further enhance our commitment to the specialist digitisation of heritage materials. Andrew Austin joins us as Head of Digitisation Solutions, with 15... read more →