Sep 1, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
September 2023 Newsletter – Historical Scanning and Archive In 1971, Michael S. Hart launched Project Gutenberg and digitized the U.S. Declaration of Independence, becoming the first eBook in the world. Today most printed books come out with a digital...
Aug 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
August 2023 Newsletter – PDF/A: The Standard For Long-Term Archiving PDF/A – the standard for long-term archiving. The advantages of converting your records to the PDF/A format On September 28, 2005 the International Standards Organization (ISO) formulated a new...
Jul 10, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
July 2023 Newsletter – Lets Talk Legal Retention Let’s talk about legal records retention. But what exactly is records retention? Records retention pertains to the practice and organization of safekeeping important records for a set amount of time. The length of...
May 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
May 2023 Newsletter – A Paperless Office.. How to go Paperless Going paperless. Going green. These were always statements that went together. Because we were going paperless we were going green. Because we were going green we were going paperless. But is going...
Apr 7, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
April 2023 Newsletter – NARA and What It Means For You The National Archives and Records Administration, best known as NARA; is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government within the executive branch. Its primary task is to protect, preserve, and keep...
Oct 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
October 2020 Newsletter – Metadata Having accurate metadata is a critical component to making your data findable. So often, we find ourselves swimming in paper, not by choice. It’s not for any other reason than that’s the way we have always done it....
Jan 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
January 2020 Newsletter – Windows 7 Support Expires The End of an Era: Windows 7 Support Expires It’s been ten years since the first release of Microsoft’s Windows 7. Now as the decade comes to a close, so does support for this popular operating system. For...
Nov 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
November 2019 Newsletter – Book Scanning Getting Smart with Book Scanning Scanning Book scanning can be difficult whether you’re scanning a textbook, a pamphlet book, or trying to capture an illustration. It’s a difficulty we’ve all faced at one time or another,...
Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
April 2019 Newsletter – Tax Season It’s that time of year again! Since you have to take care of taxes, now is the perfect time to finally get your tax documentation in order. Effective tax document retention and record keeping can save you tons of headaches down...