National Museums Liverpool High-Performance Tabletop Copy System-Digitise Archives & Herbarium Sheets

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Supply of a High-Performance Tabletop Copying System to Digitise Collection Archives and Herbarium Sheets A compact, mobile, fast, flexible, ergonomic and easy to use - high performance table-top copying system is required to image collection archives and herbarium sheets up to A2 size. A high performance, efficient, user-friendly, A2 tabletop copying system is required to digitise World Museum's diverse collection archives and herbarium sheets. In particular: • Individual and bound botanical prints and drawings, totalling ca. 3,500 illustrations, dating back to the seventeenth century. • Our undocumented but very extensive natural science collection related archives. These include irreplaceable registers and stock books, scientific drawings, catalogues, field note- books, diaries, photographs, letters and other unique documentation. Many of which are of high scientific, historic, aesthetic and wider cultural value. • 370,000+ individual herbarium sheets* (two at a time) with associated data, which are the major component of our internationally important Botany collection * Dried pressed plants mounted on paper typically A3 in size.