In preparation for the launch of the Courtney Milne website, the University Archives and Special Collections has spent the past year (and more) since the acquisition of his materials scanning slides for a truly massive online database.

To date, between the two Braun slide scanners we have set up in UASC and Digitization, as well as with up to five flatbed scanners being used by staff, and particularly by our summer students, we have managed to scan a grand total of:
. . .. and counting!For anyone who is interested, this is what a 100 slide slide scanner looks like:

It makes joyous chatty, whirring, whining, grinding noises that Patrick (on the other side of this orange divider) loves, and we are all now well able to speak and understand the language of “Scanner” .

Lately, we have hit a happy patch where most of what we are scanning consists of pictures Milne took in Hawaii. Every morning, switching out the hundred slides for a hundred fresh slides is like taking a mini-vacation, peering at the beautiful world through Milne’s talented eye. A few examples of our most recent vicarious explorations: