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Qidenus Robotic Book Scanner to appear at IFLA World Congress 2010

TownsWeb Archiving are the exclusive UK resellers of the Quidenus Robotic Book Scanner and we are proud to announce that there will be an opportunity to see it in motion at the IFLA World Congress 2010 in Gothenburg Sweden. In the first term of this year 2010, the Robotic Book Scanner has been used on [...]

Digitisation of an Old Photographic Collecton

One customer, a University, have a unique photographic collection and were looking for a supplier with experience and competance of digitising this very valuable collection. Having heard about other similar projects that TownsWeb Archiving had worked upon recently and having received a very competitive quotation, TownsWeb Archiving Ltd were chosen to digitise this unique material. TownsWeb Archiving’s [...]

Making Burial Records Fully Searchable

TownsWeb Archiving visited a Council in a very picturesque location in the South of England. The council have a set of old, handwritten burial registers that are searched upon and updated very regularly.  There are no duplicate copies of the registers and so they are extremely valuable. TownsWeb Archiving scanned the burial registers on site at the Council’s [...]

Digitisation of Regimental Journals

Townsweb Archiving were contacted by the Director of a military museum, asking if we could assist them to digitise their 240+ collection of Clinical Journals dating back to 1903. Whenever the museum received a request for historical information, the printed journals were generally an excellent resource. However, being in printed format it was very difficult [...]

It seems Summer has finally arrived!

With people jetting away on holiday, the sun shining and temperatures reaching over 30 degrees, managers could be forgiven for putting new projects on hold.  However, that certainly has not been the case. In terms of our website we have added new case studies and also more testimonials.  We have designed a new brochure which you can [...]

Helping Councils To Digitise Their Archives

TownsWeb Archiving have helped a number of cemeteries and crematoriums to digitise their archives.  In 2007, staff at TownsWeb Archiving helped Dalton Parish Council to place all their burial records online to allow the public to perform genealogy searches. Members of the public can now use the www.stmichaelsdalton.co.uk website to search accross all the cemetery [...]