New Year, New Projects

As we kick off the new year, optimism abounds to finally get to that digitization project. Now is the time for strategic planning to bring that hidden collection from the archive and make it discoverable for research.

Whether it is strategic planning or tactical implementation, Paperboy Digital Consulting can help with your project. We scope and plan a collection, facilitate funding and implementation. We work closely with top vendors that have decades of experience with all aspects of digitization, including – scanning, conversion, metadata, platform and preservation. We can also support all aspects of your physical library including cataloging, exhibits, preservation and more.

Here are some examples of active projects we are consulting, with the hope that it motivates you to move forward with yours.

• Digital transformation of a private library. Strategic planning, institutional collaboration, complete implementation from cataloging to hosting working with key vendors on a bespoke solution. The collection includes a substantial amount of photos, videos, documents, books, magazines, maps, and cultural objects.

• Collaboration between a local library and university library to expand the state newspaper digital collection with over 50 years of an important title that recently ceased publishing.

• Utilizing AI for full transcription of handwritten Board of Directors notes back to the 1860s to 99.5% accuracy for a large university archive.

• Digitization of city directories for a large county public library system

• Digitization of fragile photos and scrapbooks with full OCR and captioning for a private society library hosted on a custom platform utilizing AI and crowd-source tagging to further expand structured metadata making the collection more searchable.

Please reach out to info@paperboydigital.com if you have a similar project, or completely unique project, you would like to kick off this year.

Happy 2026 from all of us at Paperboy Digital Consulting.

Bryan