In mid-March, the Ray I. Riley Digitization Center will be home to a new Cruse large format, high resolution scanner.  Cruse scanners are used world-wide by organizations such as Beethoven Museum in Bonn, Germany, the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, the Vatican’s Secret Archives and NASA / Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to name a few.

The new scanner will allow Riley Center staff to scan maps from the Frances Poage Map Collection currently house by the Texas Collection at the Carroll Library.  Funds from the Frances Poage Map Collection Endowment were used to help purchase this 2,000-pound scanner, which can handle documents up to 33 inches by 88 inches.  For more information, please email Darryl Stuhr or call (254) 710-7356.