Microfilm Digitization | CLIR Grant
Searching for a microfilm digitization solution to submit for a CLIR grant?
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is accepting proposals for the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant until April 30th at 5pm EST. If you have records on physical microfilm and want to submit for a grant, consider BMI’s Digital ReeL microfilm digitization solution.
Digital ReeL Video Overview
With BMI’s Digital ReeL microfilm digitization solution, your staff and patrons scroll virtual microfilm rolls or microfiche sheets from a computer and use full text search to find articles, historical documents and images of the past. Adjustable grayscale enables you to turn black and white images into real photos.
Yuba County Library Microfilm Digitization Case Study
Learn how Gina Zurakowski, Archives Librarian, digitized the Appeal-Democrat newspaper that dates back to 1849. Patrons, many looking for Gold Rush information, access the virtual microfilm library from one of several public library workstations. Read more about this microfilm digitization solution.
Read other case studies to learn how organizations nationwide are using Digital ReeL.
Digital ReeL Features & Benefits
- Affordably priced per microfilm roll or microfiche sheet
- A popular microfilm digitization solution for other libraries leveraging special grants similar to CLIR
- Microfilm conversion service completed at one of our California conversion facilities
- The Digital ReeL interface emulates the look of a physical reader printer; users scroll digital microfilm rolls
- Search for articles using the same logic present in your current physical archive (e.g. date, roll number, page)
- Full text search makes it easy to find articles, local history and other records in seconds
- Enhance grainy, difficult to read articles or photos with adjustable grayscale; turn impossible to make out words or images into photo quality documents
- On premise and hosted options available
Microfilm Digitization Solutions for CLIR Consideration are Due April 30th!
CLIR may award $4 million (up to $500 thousand per institution) to support the digitization of collections with high research value. One of the key goals of CLIR is to ensure that digitized content is made available to the public as easily and completely as possible. If you have historical records trapped on physical microfilm, a CLIR grant might be the way to fund your desired microfilm digitization requirements.
BMI has been in business over 50 years and we’ve helped libraries, historical societies, educational institutions and government agencies throughout the United States convert their microfilm.
Contact us to learn more about the Digital ReeL microfilm digitization solution.
Call (800) FLY-FILM.