Title & Author:

Digitization in the real world : lessons learned from small and medium-sized digitization projects / edited by Kwong Bor Ng & Jason Kucsma.

Publication:

New York : Metropolitan New York Library Council, [2010]
©2010

Description:

xii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I. Small is Beautiful : Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects with Limited Resources. DIY digitization : creating a small-scale digital zine exhibit ; Digitizing civil rights : an Omeka-based pilot digital presence for the Queens College Civil Rights Archive ; Digitization on a dime : how a small library and a big team of volunteers digitized 15,000 obituaries in just over a year ; Building the ALBA Digital Library ; Digitization and access of Louisiana oral histories : one oral history center's experience in the digital realm ; Digitizing a newspaper clippings collection : a case study and framework for small-scale digital projects ; METRO grant success story : Waterways of New York project -- Part II. A Diverse Digital Landscape : Digital Collections in Public Libraries, Museums, Cultural Heritage Institutions, and Knowledge-Based Organizations. Managing rights in a medium scale audio digitization project ; The in-house digital laboratory : possibilities and responsibilities -- Building a virtual library : a case study at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary ; Local objects, local people, local history : creating the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database ; Digitizing the rare book collection of the Leo Baeck Institute ; The Caprons of Paris : a digitization project in a small library system ; The Mass. Memories Road Show : a state-wide scanning project ; Picturing the museum : education and exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History -- Part III. The Digital Campus : Digitization in Universities and Their Libraries. Developing an institutional repository at Southern New Hampshire University : year one ; Digitization of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive ; New Jersey Digital Legal Library ; Pratt Institute : a historical snapshot of campus and area ; Scaling back for an "experimental" collection ; From confusion and chaos to clarity and hope : reorganization of work flows, processes, and delivery for digital libraries ; Digitizing Colorado State University's historic photograph collection : a case study ; Entering the digitization universe : one catalog librarian's experience at an academic library ; From Argentina to Zambia : capturing the digital A to Z's of a child art collection ; Special collections, digitization, and the classroom : a new model -- Part IV. One Plus One is Greater Than Two : Collaborative Projects. Digital treasures : the evolution of a digital repository in Massachusetts ; Collaborative digitization goes local ; Picturing the past and planning for the future : Central Florida Memory ; Apollo 13.0 : digitizing astronaut Jack Swigert's Apollo documents ; Collaborative-centered digital curation : a case study at Clemson University Libraries ; The Craft Revival Project : library leadership in creating connections between small cultural institutions ; Hudson River Valley Heritage : a journey in collaborative digitization ; Collaborating for success : a cross-departmental digitization project ; Using Omeka to build digital collections : the METRO case study.
English.

Summary:

"The 34 papers presented in this book represent our best effort to present a diverse and comprehensive overview of key issues in the management and realization of digitization projects. ... This is, above all, a book written by practitioners for practitioners who together recognize the critical needs and goals in digitization in our industry"--Page x-xi.

ISBN:

9780615379982
0615379982

Subject:

Library materials Digitization.
Archival materials Digitization.
Electronic records.
Digital preservation.
Copyright and digital preservation.
Digital libraries.
Web archiving.
Documents de bibliothèque Numérisation.
Documents d'archives Numérisation.
Archives électroniques.
Bibliothèques virtuelles.
Archivage Internet.

Form/genre:

Electronic records.

Added entries:

Ng, Kwong Bor, editor.
Kucsma, Jason, editor.
Metropolitan New York Library Council, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276099
Call No.: BIB 210653
Status: Available