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The Library of Congress is the world's largest library and is
located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Besides books, it
contains all kinds of documents, from illustrations, magazines, maps
to personal letters. Much of the older material is on microfilm. Photocopying and
copying by hand-held cameras is permitted. Scanners are not.
I usually research at LoC for media outlets or academics, but will consider
all offers.
Outputs:
How materials are copied depends on their format. Bound
books are best photocopied. I also photocopy magazines, but I find
it better to photograph them and other flat documents using a
high-resolution camera. Photocopies can be sent directly to the
client via regular mail or scanned as PDF files
and then "text recognized"* and e-mailed
or copied to a CD or DVD.
Photographs can be
posted to a website or transformed into
"text-recognized" PDF files that can be printed out on any
printer, closely resembling the original in color (much more so than
photocopies).
Rates:
I charge competitive rates depending upon duration and
complexity of search and final product. All
copying media, such as photocopies, flash or other hard drives, CDs and DVDs are paid for by the client.
* Note: Searchable
text-recognized PDF files are created after the image has been
converted into a PDF file using an OCR (optical character
recognition) program. Such files are searchable by many search
engines, such as Windows Desktop Search and Google Desktop Search or
the search tool that in included with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
These search tools do not work with handwriting and can be
imprecise, especially with old documents written with manual
typewriters.
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