DIY digitisation: How the Center for the Study of Political Graphics designed an in-house studio to digitise 90,000 political posters

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the need and urgency for archives to scale up digital collections to continue providing access to their materials. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) planned, troubleshot and constructed an in-house digitisation studio with a limited budget and team. Since 2021, CSPG has digitised over 60,000 posters. More than half of these digitised images have been processed and added to CSPG’s collections management system. So far, over 20,000 of these digitised posters have been added to CSPG’s collections website. This paper provides an overview of how a relatively small poster archive created an in-house digitisation studio. This article is also included in The Business & Management Collection which can be accessed at http:// hstalks/business.