Color Scanner now available at Biomed
A color and black & white planetary scanner is available at the Biomedical Library. The scanner is easy to use and offers many options. Images can be saved in a variety of file formats (JPG, PNG, PDF, or TIFF). The scanner also provides options to crop and enlarge, lighten and darken, sharpen and smooth.
The scanner can accommodate oversized materials (up to 17″ x 24″) that are too large for photocopiers. Preservation quality scanning is achieved because books are scanned face up which prevents wear and tear on bindings.
16¢ for each saved image
Users can scan, manipulate, and delete images and only pay for the images saved. Images are either saved to a flash drive or sent to an email address. Each image saved costs $0.16.
The scanner is located on the library’s first floor, near the entrance to the Current Journal Reading Room. If you need assistance ask Circulation or Reference Desk staff or contact Bob Freel, Head of Access Delivery Services, bobfreel@library.ucla.edu, 310.206.3004.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
hmm. nice to have for the convenience, but it’s a much better deal for UCLA users to simply use the document delivery service.
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
Hi Randy-
The Document Delivery Service (or DDS) is great when you need a PDF version of a book chapter or an article. However, the scanner has some main differences from DDS:
- DDS charges at least $3.25 for an article or chapter. The scanner costs just 16 cents a page.
- You can scan part of an article or part of a page of a book, a service DDS does not provide
- The scanner is full-color; DDS only provides black and white copies
- The scanner allows you to export files as PDF, TIFFs, and JPGs, whereas DDS only outputs as PDF
- The scanner can be used whenever the Library is open. DDS can take 2-3 days to fill your request.
- You can manipulate the images on the scanner (making them larger, smaller, cropped, lighter, darker, etc.), a service DDS does not provide at all
- You can use the scanner to obtain electronic copies of full-color images, graphs, or tables, for use in presentations, reports, etc. (although as always, copyright rules apply!)
- You can scan graphs, images, etc., from the non-circulating collection; DDS does not provide high-quality image scans, and as you cannot remove these special materials from the library, the scanner is the only way to get high-quality electronic copies of these materials
- You can bring in your own materials to scan; DDS is only able to scan items owned by the Library
Our patrons needed a way to get electronic copies of materials, and we hope the scanner will help them as they complete their education or research. Contact us at biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu if you have more questions about what the scanner can do!