CORPORATE HISTORY
Access Systems Ltd. began microfilming in a service bureau capacity in 1980. From the beginning our emphasis has been productivity, creating quality images and using the proper equipment for the documents at hand. Today our microfilm service bureau includes 16mm cameras for many office document applications such as, Continuous Forms, Cheques, Newspapers, Medical Records, Corporate Records as well as, 35mm Cameras for Engineering drawings. To compliment this equipment we have in house processing and quality assurance along with duplicators, jacket loaders, aperture cards mounters etc…
Our company has grown to not only provide microfilming services, but to provide microfilm quality assurance products (Densitomiters, microfilm and scanner test targets, microscopes etc). We also provide the processing and quality assurance of microfilm services to many clients who operate their own in-house microfilm and/or scanning production equipment.
Our involvement in the Imaging Industry started in 1988 with the opening of our Engineering Drawing Scanning Service Bureau. From the conception of our service we have subscribed to the Fbi (Film based imaging) theory. This concept have proven to be most successful in converting varied quality and texture documents such as engineering drawings to images.
Today our service bureau operates aperture card scanners, paper scanners and 16mm roll and microfiche scanners.
Our commitment to the Records Management Industry includes our involvement on the C.G.S.B. (Canadian General Standards Board) “Microfilm and Electronic Image as Documentary Evidence” (CGSB 72.11-92) as well as “Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence” (CGSB 72.34-2005) standards committees.
Management Team
Don Donoahue President and founder of Access Systems Ltd. installed the Microfilm Service Bureau at Access Systems using his previous experience at Kodak and Bell & Howell. Access specializes in converting paper of all shapes and sizes to quality microfilm images.
In addition to his duties at Access Systems, Don was a founding member and held the position of Executive Director of CIIMS (The Canadian Information and Image Management Society). He has been a member of many CGSB Microfilm Standards Committees including being a Subcommittee Chairman for the CGSB 92-11 Standard and was a representative for Canada for ISO Microfilm and Electronic Imaging Standards.
Steve Knight Sales Manager of Access Systems installed the Imaging (Scanning) Service Bureau specializing in converting paper and all microfilm formats to Scanned Images.
In addition to his duties at Access Systems, Steve teaches the “Document Imaging Technology” course in the Records Management Program at Mohawk College in Hamilton and the Storing and Protecting of Records in the Records Management Fundamentals Course at the Professional Learning Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Steve is also the Technical Subcommittee Chairman for the CGSB 92-11 Standard and a committee member for the soon to be released CGSB “Electronic Documents as Documentary Evidence Standard”.
