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Beeline and Blue Sponsors Evening Event

By Julie Miller posted 07-17-2017 13:34

  



An Art and Jazz evening event at the Salisbury House Museum in Des Moines, Iowa served as a unique backdrop to bring attention to the newest scanner at Beeline and Blue, the sponsor of the event.

Steven Strooh, Vice President of Beeline and Blue, stated the company-sponsored event was a great success. The evening event followed a meeting of the Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) where exhibits were officially opened. Approximately 100 people were transported to the Salisbury House Museum where they continued their experience.

Curator and Chief Historian of the Salisbury House Foundation, Megan Stout Sibbel, welcomed the AMM attendees and introduced Steven who in turn made a few brief remarks about Beeline and Blue’s capabilities with reference to Museum Exhibits and their book scanning demonstration taking place at Salisbury House. Rare artifacts and the tiny Book of Hours were used to demonstrate the scanner’s unique software.





Beeline and Blue’s successful exhibit at the AMM conference included the Image Access BookEye scanner and the new Canon PRO 2000. Both were available for hands-on demonstrations. Interest in scanning (digitizing) continues to be high, with grant writing and tight time-frames being the biggest obstacles. Beeline’s proximity to a lot of smaller county archives turned out to be a big benefit and they expect to start seeing a wide range of county government scanning take place including plat maps and other records being digitized on an on-going basis.

Tanya D., a Museum Coordinator at an Iowa County Historical Society says they receive many requests for plat maps and other county records on a daily basis. Tanya remarked, "The older, folded maps are especially hard to scan on roll-fed scanners." 

As a museum coordinator in a small historical society, she was interested in the Canon PRO 2000 printer as way to help merchandise some of their maps and other objects in their retail museum shop. She said, “We never thought of printing on demand! We always thought we had to print hundreds or thousands of large maps or posters to make them affordable to our patrons. We will be coming for a tour and bringing some of our archives to digitize and print.”






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