New scan-tents in four libraries

Easy, free, and sustainable: scanning with scan-tents

In its Declaration on the Climate Emergency from 2019, Freie Universität Berlin set a goal of attaining climate neutrality by 2025. In this sense, the libraries support sustainable research, teaching, and studying.

One idea is to reduce the number of printers and copiers and replace them with better scanning facilities. A corresponding pilot project is set to begin at the beginning of the winter semester: A scan-tent will be available from October 11th in the Campus Library, the Philological Library, the Law Library and the Library for Social Sciences and Eastern European Studies.

Using it is intuitive and free of charge: Install and open any document-scanner app à Position the medium in the scan-tent, place the smartphone on top of the tent à Scan according to the app-instructions -> Done.

The tent can scan document formats up to A3.

If the tents prove to be reliable and are utilized often, the purchase of additional scan-tents in other libraries at Freie Universität will be considered.