What are the best practices and planning for a digitization project? How can your staff gain the skills needed to launch or maintain a digital project and what are the implications of launching a long term digital preservation system in your organization? Get the answers to these questions and more below.
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Resources
Best Practices and Planning for Digitization Projects
- The success of a project is generally in proportion to the time spent in planning the project. To help you avoid some of the pitfalls here are some recommendations and resources for planning a digital imaging project.
- Path: [Library Services » Technical Services » Digitization & Preservation]
- Preservation covers a wide range of activities: repairing the physical damage to well-used materials; transforming physical materials into digital format; or preserving the historic record or other notable resource collections. Use this list to help your staff achieve competency.
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- Students at UNC have created three short videos: a pam folder procedure, tip-in procedure, and four-flap enclosures. It’s much easier to learn from what you see and hear than to read and follow diagrams and wonder if you’re doing it right
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Glossary of Scanning and Digital Imaging Terms
- Alyce Scott from the Illinois State Library helps explain some of the most common and confusing terms used in digitization projects.
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Bite-Size Digital History Webinar
- Learn to use Microsoft PhotoStory 3 to create digital history documentaries in this recorded webinar.
- [Library Services » Technical Services » Digitization & Preservation]
- Visit this WJIL page under the Featured Statewide Initiatives to find out more about digitization projects in Illinois including a “Descriptive Survey of Illinios Digital Collections.”
- [Illinois Center » Featured Statewide Initiatives » Digital Illinois]
Courses and Learning
Capturing History: Digitization Projects
- Computers have been around for a generation, now, and a lot of matierial is available through digital media. However, there is still a lot of valuable information left to be digitized. This tutorial covers the basics of scanning and will improve your understanding of the issues involved with digitization projects, including copyright issues, equipment, terms, funding. So, before breaking out the scanners, spend a couple of hours reviewing what you need to know in order to make your digitization project a success
All courses listed above are free to eligible and registered users of WJIL.
Community
Digitization and Preservation Symposium, August 25, 1:00 – 3:00 pm CT
Join colleagues for a two-hour symposium that will feature four presentations on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects. Guest panelists will address:
- Designing a digital preservation system using a framework that includes all stakeholders, from library administrators to archivists to IT workers to vendors.
- The difference between access and preservation tools, and why we need to consider both.
- Harvesting social networking websites for preservation.
- The organizational “long-view” of preservation resources, technology, costs and policies.
What Could I do with…Digitization Learning Opportunities”?
Have you always wanted your library to get involved in digitization but were unsure of how to begin or what you need to know? Use the WJIL learning opportunities listed above to jump start your digitization experience. Enroll in the free WJIL course Capturing History: Digitization Projects and learn a bit about the basics of scanning then register and plan to attend the Digitization and Preservation Synposium to find out more about the long view of the technology, costs and policies associated with a digitization and preservation program.