Invitation to Tender - Book Scanner

Description

National Museums Scotland is seeking to procure an in-house book scanning facility for our research library collections. Located in our Research Library at Chambers street, Edinburgh, this will enable library staff to digitise items from the library's special collections collection - rare books, archives, and manuscripts - on a large scale and to a high resolution. The Library has a large and unique special collection gathered over the past 240 years - including the archive of the museum, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and key Scottish naturalists - much of it of significant importance to the wider research community due to their unique nature, scarcity or provenance. A digital book scanner will allow the library to make this collection accessible to that community as it gives us the ability to digitise more of the material than we have ever been able to do previously. National Museums Scotland is seeking to procure a new Book Scanner to be installed the Research Library offices at National Museums Scotland’s Chambers street site in Edinburgh.