[Dtb-talk] scanning and editing textbooks

[Tasha Chemel]

Hi, My name is Tasha Chemel, and I am a social work student at Boston College. Unfortunately, the woman  who runs the DSS office is very unfamiliar with the process  of scanning and editing books. Because Boston College has no dedicated scanning facilities, she's sent all of my books to the print shop, even though no one at the print shop has had any experience with creating scans of sufficient  quality to undergo OCR. When I told her the files would need to be edited, she said she'd look into a student to do this but that it really wasn't her priority. I was told that someone on this list might be able to help me with the following questions. First, does anyone know of a service that would scan and edit my books? Second, does anyone have some good strategies   (or is familiar with the  rellevent laws) for getting the textbook publishers to release the files? I know that most publishers will only speak to people from DSS, and the woman from DSS has left them messages and emails, but she's not getting a lot of responses and I want to see how i can help the process along. 
Any advice on these matters would be much appreciated.
Tasha   
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Hi, My name is Tasha Chemel, and I am a social work student at Boston College. Unfortunately, the woman  who runs the DSS office is very unfamiliar with the process  of scanning and editing books. Because Boston College has no dedicated scanning facilities, she's sent all of my books to the print shop, even though no one at the print shop has had any experience with creating scans of sufficient  quality to undergo OCR. When I told her the files would need to be edited, she said she'd look into a student to do this but that it really wasn't her priority. I was told that someone on this list might be able to help me with the following questions. First, does anyone know of a service that would scan and edit my books? Second, does anyone have some good strategies   (or is familiar with the  rellevent laws) for getting the textbook publishers to release the files? I know that most publishers will only speak to people from DSS, and the woman from DSS has left them messages and emails, but she's not getting a lot of responses and I want to see how i can help the process along. 
Any advice on these matters would be much appreciated.
Tasha