National Museums Liverpool High-Performance Tabletop Copy System-Digitise Archives & Herbarium Sheets

Descriptions

Supply of a High-Performance Tabletop Copying System to Digitise Collection Archives and Herbarium Sheets A compact, mobile, fast, flexible, ergonomic and easy to use - high performance table-top copying system is required to image collection archives and herbarium sheets up to A2 size. A high performance, efficient, user-friendly, A2 tabletop copying system is required to digitise World Museum's diverse collection archives and herbarium sheets. In particular: •Individual and bound botanical prints and drawings, totalling ca. 3,500 illustrations, dating back to the seventeenth century. •Our undocumented but very extensive natural science collection related archives. These include irreplaceable registers and stock books, scientific drawings, catalogues, field note- books, diaries, photographs, letters and other unique documentation. Many of which are of high scientific, historic, aesthetic and wider cultural value. •370,000+ individual herbarium sheets* (two at a time) with associated data, which are the major component of our internationally important Botany collection * Dried pressed plants mounted on paper typically A3 in size.