In October last year I attended the “Microfilm in the digital era” conference in Moscow and gave a speech entitled “Microfilm in 2017 -Back to the Future 2!” about my... read more →
Genus is proud to announce the launch of another new microfilm product. After two years of heavy development Genus are now making microfilm diazo - fully manufactured, slit and packaged... read more →
On the 24th & 25th of October Paul Negus - Managing Director of Genus, attended the “Microfilming in the Digital Era” conference held at The Russian National Public Library for... read more →
A presentation by Managing Director of Genus - Paul Negus from the "Microfilming in the Digital Era" Conference: My father started The Microfilm Shop in 1974 after running a successful... read more →
Digital Collections Development Manager, Anna Creedon tells us about London Transport Museum’s latest digitisation project using the Versascan A0 flatbed The Collection The collection at London Transport Museum comprises of... read more →
Genus is pleased to announce the recent installation of Goobi workflow to aid digitisation processes in-house and on-site. Goobi’s core task is to manage digitisation project workflows - in a... read more →
Given the success we had gathering information on the history of our microfilm reader we thought we’d call on readers once again for assistance with a current photoshoot we have... read more →
With the increase in digital storage media and formats and the need for archives to be accessible, lots of organisations had begun to see microfilm as an old-fashioned medium for... read more →
You've probably noticed by now that although we embark on many different projects involving digitisation we still feel very strongly about our old friend microfilm. “Microfilm – It's not all... read more →
Thanks to our constant expansion in the supply of archival imaging equipment and services, 2016 sees Genus announce a new member to further enhance our technical support team. Anthony brings... read more →
As easy-to-use self-service scanners become commonplace in libraries across the country, the debate over the future of photocopiers is changing. Once, digital scanners were seen as a convenient supplemental service,... read more →
Genus are the UK distributor for Roth & Weber (ROWE) large format reprographic scanners. Here we look at one example of their usage in a demanding environment. Background ASM... read more →
Since 2008 Genus have been supplying Luminary Trading with high quality digitised images of their newspaper collections. Over the last 7 years Genus have built up a strong relationship with... read more →
More than an open scan track Since its first pre-launch showing at CeBIT 2013 the SCAMAX 8x1 has already been voted product of the year by the readers of Postmaster-Magazin... read more →
Walk into any professional digitisation studio capturing heritage/library material and you are most likely to see a mixture of specialist scanning equipment and copy stands using DSLR cameras. The development... read more →
Not names you would normally expect to hear in the same phrase but there is a reason. A recent enquiry from a client led to the installation of a Wicks... read more →
Genus is proud to report on the installation of a book2net Spirit Advance book scanner for self-service use at the University of Birmingham library. Here, Genus discusses the project with... read more →
Genus recently attended a Digital Preservation Coalition event at the British Library called “What I wish I knew before I started.” This one-day conference brought together a group of leading... read more →
The company behind some of the most popular public and production library and heritage digitisation systems is pleased to announce the launch of its latest product, the K71 camera. The... read more →
2014 sees Genus celebrate its 40th anniversary of supplying archival imaging solutions, and as we enter our fifth decade we are delighted to announce a new member to further enhance... read more →
As museums, libraries and archives digitise their collections the term ‘petabyte’ [which is one up from terabyte and two up from a gigabyte] has become increasingly regular in conversations. While... read more →