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Volunteer Diary Scanning

We booked the [reading room] and [volunteers] for tomorrow to scan fragile 1870s [diaries] because a course needs imag…

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We booked the [reading room] and [volunteers] for tomorrow to scan fragile 1870s [diaries] because a course needs images next week. I’m uneasy: the diaries are brittle, and I’m not confident my scanning plan protects the bindings or produces usable text. I don’t know whether to use contact sheets, overhead shots, or outsource one folder to conservation. Diagnose the immediate risk and tell me the single safe workflow to run tomorrow that keeps the originals intact and gives me searchable files; name the one conservation person or [vendor] I should call if something looks worse than expected.
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Volunteers arrive tomorrow to scan fragile 1870s diaries for a digitization request from an undergraduate course

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