Museums, Libraries & Educational Institutions
If you are a non-profit organization with a library of vinyl records, the good news is that Mhastery can help. And the better news is that it might even be free.
Grants are often available that can help defray or even cover the cost of important projects like digitizing and preserving your collection for future generations to enjoy.
Mhastery's expert digitization services are the best money can buy, ensuring that your one-of-a-kind collection is treated with the reverence it deserves. On time, and on budget. Following is a brief list of benefits that digitizing your vinyl library can offer:
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Reclaim Valuable Floorspace
As we move further and further into the digital world, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the expense of so much square footage for media. The good news is that, with digitizing, this constant battle for space is one you no longer need to wage. -
A Faithful Archive
One of the joys of an analog medium like vinyl is that each copy sounds slightly different. It all depends on the specific wear and tear that a record experiences, and the specific hardware you use to play it back. In this regard, digitizing offers a superior archival record of your albums when compared to commercially available CDs or digital copies. You will wind up with an exact digital copy of your records, with all their nuance and character, but with all the conveniences of a digital file. -
Eliminate Loss
Physical collections are plagued by several unavoidable pitfalls, such as misfiling, damage, and theft. Digitizing ensures that these concerns are completely eliminated and even goes a step further, allowing you maximum flexibility in disaster-preparedness--affording you options such as off-site backup. -
Leverage Your Existing Library
Just because it's in your library doesn't mean your users know about it. How many fantastic albums are sitting, unplayed, in your stacks simply because no one has happened upon them for the past...several...years? Once you pull all your albums together into a digital library, they are at once searchable, sortable, taggable... Assembling an artist's discography in chronological order no longer requires a map, a flashlight, and a pick-axe--just a mouse.
Your library is too valuable to delay any longer. Contact Us to get the ball rolling, and we'd be glad to work up a proposal for your digitization project.