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/ Bound Volume Collections

Microform offers specialist digitisation services for bound volume collections, providing a secure and efficient way to preserve and access heritage books, journals, magazines, and other bound materials. Our team handles each item with care, ensuring that the digitisation process does not compromise the original structure or content. Whether your collection includes historical volumes, journals, or books, we provide high-quality digital reproductions that allow for easy access, searchability, and long-term preservation. By digitising your bound volumes, you can protect valuable heritage items from deterioration while making them accessible to a wider audience.

Microform’s bound volume digitisation services ensure that your heritage books and documents are not only preserved but also made accessible for future research and enjoyment. By converting your collections into digital formats, you safeguard these important items from physical damage while broadening their reach to a global audience.

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Old books on bookcase and open book next to a stack of books on a desk.

/ How It Works

1 / Tell us what you have

Share the types of volume, rough quantities and their condition. We'll reply within one working day with a recommended approach.

2 / We collect your volumes

Your volumes are collected securely and brought to our temperature-controlled heritage studio, where experienced technicians assess and prepare each one.

3 / We scan and check

Every page is scanned [using book cradles that support the spine], then quality-checked and indexed around how you search for records.

4 / Your files arrive

Your files arrive in the formats you need, ready to use and share. Your volumes are returned to you or stored securely.

/ Why choose Us?

It’s a family affair

We’re proud to fly the flag for family-run businesses, and although our team has grown significantly over the last 70 years, we still bring a personal touch to everything we do.

Complete protection

To ensure your materials are safe in our care, we implement strict security measures and undergo regular disaster recovery assessments.

Specialist heritage facilities

The storage, preparation and digitisation of your heritage materials is carried out in our purpose-built single-level, temperature-controlled studio area measuring over 10,000 feet.

Respected and respectful

Our skilled, knowledgeable and experienced handlers and technicians are known for their meticulous handling of heritage materials – treating them with the respect they deserve at all times.

Gentle preservation

We use cutting-edge technology and advanced techniques to provide one of the UK’s most specialist digitisation services for your rare, precious and fragile heritage materials.

Services by us, for you

Our flexible services are fully tailored to ensure organisations meet their key objectives regardless of the type or quantity of materials.

/ Reviews from our Customers

Microform are one of the best companies that I have had the pleasure of working with in a long time. They work as part of the extended team, so communication isn't an effort; it is a natural part of the process of getting the job done and delivering results.
Alison John Registration Services Manager, Warwickshire County Council
I love REG...the slick, quick and accurate re-production of any register entry is great, none of the staff at this office would go back to life without it!
Anne Atherton Superintendent Registrar, St Helens Registration Service
We have found the REG system a joy to manage and work with. Not only does it give us easy, speedy access to the certificates, we can now also offer a more professional, timely service to the public. All the staff have been impressed by how easy it is to use.
Microform Imaging have been a great company to work with, delivering excellent service and creating a unique, bespoke partnership.
Dawn Titherington Superintendent Registrar, Blackpool Council
Due to our repository being off site it was vital that we looked at alternative ways to work. Working with Microform and the REG system they had designed has transformed the way we work. No longer do staff have to leave the office to access registers on a daily/hourly basis all records are accessible instantly. Staff have welcomed the system and have full confidence in how to search, edit and print certificates. It has enabled us to offer a 2 hour turnaround certificate service for a premium fee increasing our income. Working with Microform has been a pleasure and one of most successful partnerships.
Gillian Greeson Superintendent Registrar, Wigan Council
REG has transformed the way in which we produce certificates. The process is simplified and streamlined and together with our ongoing indexing project has enabled us to achieve the efficiency targets required by the local authority.
Pat Evans Superintendent Registrar, The Register Office, Liverpool
From the first meeting we had to discuss our requirements with Mo, all the way through to now, communication in all forms have been exceptional. I very much doubt you could improve the quality of customer care and satisfaction. The relationship with Rachel throughout the project gave exceeded all my expectations, she has made the project a pleasure and stress-free experience. The level of professionalism and 'can do' attitude she has shown from day one has been amazing and made what could have been a time of worry and concern for me, in to a feel-good working experience. Microform go the extra mile to make life easier!
Robert Harrison IT Director and Partner, HGF
I was thrilled to bits with the hard drive containing the scans of all my scrapbooks and would like to thank you very much for doing such a splendid job and for treating them with such great care.
Sir Stirling Moss

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