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Tish Goodspeed
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Press Release

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BOCA RATON, FL. AUGUST 1ST, 2004

The Digital Library Systems Group at Image Access, a leader in innovative products for university libraries, today announced the introduction of The Preservation Starter Kit. The Preservation Starter Kit is single station, single user digitization software for university archive and special collections departments. The Preservation Starter Kit, is a tool that enables university libraries to digitize rare and special collections for the purpose of preservation and accessibility.

Features include:
- Unique barcode creation to identify each collection piece
- Two up scanning and image splitting
- Automatic and manual Image treatments such as clip, crop, deskew, page split, book fold correction and many more
- Creation of user definable metadata capture templates to fit your choice of standard such as METS or Dublin Core and many more
- Automatic and manual capture of object and technical metadata
- Creation of multiple file derivatives such as text searchable PDF, JPEG, TIFF, TXT, PNG and many more
- Export of digital objects into your digital repository or back-end image management software such as Digitool, ContentDM and many more

“The Digital Library Systems Group has tasked itself with providing powerful, efficient yet affordable digitization solutions to small and medium sized universities. Our next step in fulfilling this promise is the introduction of the Preservation Starter Kit to fill the feature gap that exists between the most expensive production digitization solutions and the most affordable”, says Ted Webb CEO.