Your organization's collections are valuable to you and your users and they may be both rare and fragile.
You would like to share these collections with the public and with researchers but the risk to your valuable, rare and fragile collections is too great to allow constant access.
You want to preserve your collections for future generations while allowing regular access to these materials.
The solution to these challenges lies in microfilming and digitising your collections, re-formatting of your original materials by experts in the field, making high quality copies available to end-users, while at the same time making preservation standard copies to safeguard your materials for future generations.
Although it is now relatively easy to digitally scan rare, precious and delicate materials you need these tasks to be performed by a company with the proven expertise and quality standards befitting your materials.
Confidence through care and skill
Strata Preservation are vastly experienced in microfilming and digitising diverse collections for libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions.
As a result of re-formatting work done at Strata Preservation organisations have been able to preserve their valuable collections while still making them available to a wider audience without fear of further deterioration of the originals. Cultural heritage collections that can be preserved and re-formatted at Strata include materials such as photographs and negatives, drawings and diagrams, letters, newspapers, books, maps and posters amongst others. Strata Preservation has acquired an outstanding reputation in its field because of the quality of the materials it creates along with the levels of extreme care with which its employees treat your valuable collections. Strata Preservation is located within the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), The Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, and consequently has access to, and shared storage space within, the KB’s secure, climate controlled Special Collections storage facility. Allied to this, Strata Preservation’s employees are trained to the highest possible professional standards in collection care and handling.
Confidence through quality and expertise
With the excellent reputation Strata Preservation has built up it has been trusted with completing many prestigious projects.
The Anne Frank Trust gave over to the care of Strata Preservation many unique and precious articles from its World renowned collections.
Many international University libraries, museums and scientific editors have the confidence to hand over their collections to Strata Preservation.
Efficient processes for bulk scanning
The sheer volume of materials contained in some collections can create difficulties when re-formatting them for digital access.
At Strata Preservation systems and processes have been implemented in order to rapidly and efficiently complete such projects.
Advantages of availability
Strata Preservation has the tools and software available to make your digital collections available via the internet.
From a simple web accessible database to high end digital collection management tools, Strata Preservation and its partners can help you fulfil the complete Digital Lifecycle from planning to education, through re-formatting and making your collections more widely available via the internet and finally long term preservation of your digital collections.
