1. TROUP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND ARCHIVES COURT SCANNING PROJECT NHPRC DIGITIZATION GRANT 2007-2009 By Kaye Lanning Minchew kaye@trouparchives.org

25. Price per page Our goal since August 2007 has been to spend up the process and get more scanning done more quickly. We have consulted with Toby Graham of the Digital Library of Georgia but have agreed that the only way to really speed up the process is to change our scanning specifications – to perhaps 100 dpi rather than 300 dpi and scan as a personal or home project rather than in professional mode, but we all agree that we are unwilling to lessen our quality standards. Through mid-July (the date we last requested payment), we have scanned 58,566 documents (all were one page files). Our paid expenses for salaries (includes TCA staff & DLG for what has been billed thus far), volunteers, equipment, supplies, travel, and conversion to word for the finding aid. So expenses billed thus far are $96,682. We divided this amount by the total documents scanned. Our cost to date for scanning 19th century court records is $1.65 per page.