The key to a successful digitization project is planning. When done carefully, scanning Institute records can benefit your office: integrating legacy documents into an electronic system, quickening retrieval, and enabling remote access by multiple users are all good uses for this technology. On the other hand, scanning records just to save space in your office rarely pays off. 

Depending on the type of records, alternatives to digitization may include offsite storage at Iron Mountain or transferring records to the Institute Archives. Contact us for a consultation and a copy of our Digitization Project Planning Template for MIT Offices and DLCs.