Dear everyone.
I am in possession of a book, "The University of Glasgow Old and New".
(Partial details:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/july2008.html
). My copy is #22 of 50, I believe there was also a cheaper edition of 150
or 250. I really want to make this available to Wikipedia, but need help:
The book is relatively tightly bound, and the spine gets in the way of the
scanner. I need someone with either a scanner that doesn't have a one-inch
bit of plastic between the scanner bed and the edge of the scanner, thus
cutting off the photos, or a photographer able to take high-quality photos
of the photos.
I would also like to donate copies of some very large (A0 and A1) medical
posters, from the series "Supplement to the Anatomy of Labour". These are a
bit delicate, though not ridiculously so, but I'd be uncomfortable running
them through a strip scanner. If someone has a sufficiently large flatbed,
or can take photos of them, let's do this.
Please help, I've been trying to get these to Wikipedia for 6 months now.
It would be great to see these on commons & wikisource; maybe a
university library will have the facilities you need. It might be
useful to ask at the en.wp Librarians WikiProject.
Once you have the images, Wikisource people can help you bundle them
into "djvu" files ready for OCR/transcription and proofreading.
e.g.