is a quick turn-around time needed?
• physical condition of information resources – does the physical condition require professional quality equipment and services (e.g. the slides are pink, the reports are bound) • funding Below are some of the issues to consider for Unbound Text, Bound Text, and 35mm slides and negatives. Unbound Text Unbound Text: this includes content that can be separated into separate sheets of paper which can be placed face down on a flatbed scanner. This is the easiest type of material to scan in-house. Since text is generally scanned at 300 dpi, an inexpensive scanner is all that is needed and the staff doing the scanning do not need special training. However, it should be kept in mind that scanning vendors use high end equipment with sheet feeders that can scan hundreds or thousands of pages a day. Because of this scanning costs can be as low as $ .10 per page. It may be cheaper and faster to use a vendor than doing the same work in-house. Bound Text Bound text: this includes all books, journal
