Press Release 9/15/09:
Digital Preservation, St. Louis, Missouri

            Digital Preservation, St. Louis, Missouri, is now offering its special collections digitization service to private collectors, art galleries and insurance underwriters.

Digital Preservation, with ten years experience in handling and digitizing, fragile and irreplaceable special collections material, for archives, libraries, universities and museums, is now offering on-site digitization of extensive private collections.

            Working, on-site, to eliminate risk of damage and theft, we will create digital image files of your collected valuables. From stamps and baseball cards to maps and fine art, we will provide you and your insurance company with the highest resolution files, currently obtainable, and a set of matching bound archival prints.

            The high-resolution digital image files and prints, we create, have exceptional detail and are useful in the following areas:

• Authentication
• Documentation
• Research
• Theft recovery
• Damage restoration
• Publications
• Marketing

Collection Contents:
Collection materials, digitally captured by Digital Preservation, have included firearms, jewelry, large format lithographs, architectural renderings, maps, etchings, watercolors, oils, lithographs, illuminated manuscripts, photographic materials, coins, stamps, rare bound volumes and mosaics. Items have been folded, framed, bound, encapsulated and set in concrete!

           
What makes Digital Preservation Unique?

• Our ten years experience handling and digitizing special collections materials.
• On-site digitization to protect irreplaceable originals.
• Our digital image Captures (files created with a camera and high resolution digital back) are far superior to scans from flat bed or over-head scanners.
• We are specialists in digitizing large format prints and maps, rare bound volumes and photographic material.
• We have developed a digital technique to recover fading information.
• Digital restoration is available.
• Materials for digitization may be mounted, laminated, encapsulated or framed.
• Our equipment allows for extreme enlargement of the original size, for detail.
• No automated devices are utilized, so our method of digitization is harmless to

            fragile originals.

• Diversity of project source material has required Digital Preservation to remain flexible and on the technological edge in approaching new projects, some with material from the 1500s.
• Our thirty years of prior commercial photographic experience, assures we are not limited regarding our ability to create stunning image files, from coins to fine motor vehicles, antiquities to weaponry, whatever a collection contains.
• Archival prints are available for authentication, documentation, research, theft recovery or damage restoration.

            Please visit our web site, www.digpreservation.com, to view some of the institutional special collections material we have digitized. A portfolio is available showing additional private collection material. If you find this unique service of interest and wish to discuss it, please contact,     

            Bob Lyner
President
Digital Preservation
2001 Mulberry Hill Lane
Chesterfield, Missouri 63005

e-mail:             lyner@sbcglobal.net
phone:             314 378-8054
fax:                  636 530-7086