I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities.

Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner (http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past.

That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to handle it.

Thanks in advanced.

Carles Paredes (KRLS)

Amical Wikimedia