Digital Services

"It has been a pleasure to work with William S. Hein & Co. on our Supreme Court of Nevada digital case files project. Our collection of microfilm spanned from 1862, before statehood, to 1999. When we were considering partners, we wanted a vendor with prior experience and knew the Virginia State Law Library had success working with Hein on a similar project several years earlier. We needed our collection to be available to legal researchers throughout Nevada, indexed by year and docket number, and keyword searchable. During the digitization process, we received several requests from the Court and library patrons for specific case files. As our entire microfilm collection had been sent to Hein, we would pass these requests on to Hein and they would scan the requested case file and return it to us, often within 24 hours. We appreciate the care given to our microfilm collection and the speed and attention they gave to our patron requests during the digitization process. We look forward to having the entire digital collection of case files available to all Nevadans by November 2025 through the HeinOnline platform."

"We at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library have had a working relationship with William S. Hein & Co. for 12 years or more. In exchange for us batching and releasing books that have been identified for scanning and inclusion in their legal databases, we receive digital copies of all of those books and have requested many special scanning projects over the years. Our specially requested scanning projects have included multi-volume scrapbooks for local historians, some rare books for remote scholarly researchers and poor house ledgers for genealogists. Hein has scanned many items for our rare book exhibits too, including our valuable copy of The Federalist, a locally prominent woman’s 1920’s diary, and, most recently, a landscape architect’s book with difficult-to-capture “before and after” tabbed overlay illustrations. We trust the people at Hein with our rare and valuable material because we know they keep our materials safely and always handle them with care. Without a full-time scanning operation in our library, the digitization of the materials mentioned would not have been possible. We are grateful that the people at William S. Hein & Co. are willing to digitize our special collections whenever we have a need for this."