Digital preservation is the most viable and the only major technological alternative available to us for safe guarding our fast diminishing heritage. In order to contribute to any preservation effort and bring about a positive change, technological advances have to be met with equal amount of concern, enthusiasm, will to take concrete steps and initiative in the right direction.

Bangladesh on Record from its very inception has been at the helm of preservation effort, aimed as saving our heritage. Providing digitization services to individuals and institutions since 2019, it has been instrumental in digitally archiving hundreds of  rare books, magazines and other literature thus far.

Bangladesh on Record provides digitization services both on site and off site, depending on the constraints. If the material to be digitized warrants special care and cannot be transported to the Bangladesh on Record offices due some reasons, then Bangladesh on Record provides its digitization services right at the place where the material is situated. In such cases, the equipment and the staff is temporarily moved to the close vicinity of the place to carry out the project.

The output of the digital projects may vary, but under standard conditions it includes, RAW and jpeg images of the originals. Other derivatives like TIFF, OCR etc. may also be extracted from them depending on the need. The complete digitized material is handed over to the custodian compiled in DVDs and/or Hard disk as per requirements and official agreement.

Individuals and institutions interested in getting their collections digitized can contact the Bangladesh on Record representative by writing to [email protected]. Once we receives a request, we initiates further procedures necessary for the undertaking a digitization project.