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Personal Archiving: Scanning

This page contains information on how to scan your documents and photos and save them to a computer.

Step 1

What is personal archiving? Selecting & Preparing Your Photos 

I scanned my photos. What do I do now?

Organizing and naming the digital files after scanning.

General Tips for Naming Digital Images

 

Helpful instruction sheets from the Library of Congress

Step 2

Customizing Your Scan Settings

This site was created by MSLIS students from the Catholic University of America as part of an outreach project

for LSC648 Digital Curation. The purpose of this site is to present information and tutorials to supplement

Preservation Week activities and to provide a guide for personal archiving.

Preservation Week

@ Your Library

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