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Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects

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An edition of Digitization in the Real World (2010)

Digitization in the Real World

Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects

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Digitization in the Real World highlights 34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America. This book is written by practitioners for practitioners focusing on lessons learned from small to medium-sized digitization projects.

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Metropolitan New York Library Council
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English
Pages
577

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Library materials, Digitization, Archival materials, Electronic records, Digital preservation, Copyright and digital preservation, Digital libraries, Web archiving
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Table of Contents

Part I. Small is Beautiful: Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects with Limited Resources
Chapter 1. DIY Digitization: Creating a Small-scale Digital Zine Exhibit
Page 1
Chapter 2. Digitizing Civil Rights: An Omeka-based Pilot Digital Presence for the Queens College Civil Rights Archive
Page 23
Chapter 3. Digitization on a Dime: How a Small Library and a Big Team of Volunteers Digitized 15,000 Obituaries in Just Over a Year
Page 41
Chapter 4. Building the ALBA Digital Library
Page 57
Chapter 5. Digitization and Access of Louisiana Oral Histories: One Oral History Center’s Experience in the Digital Realm
Page 68
Chapter 6. Digitizing a Newspaper Clippings Collection: a Case Study and Framework for Small-Scale Digital Projects
Page 86
Chapter 7. METRO Grant Success Story: Waterways of New York Project
Page 100
Part 2 – A Diverse Digital Landscape: Digital Collections in Public Libraries, Museums, Cultural Heritage Institutions, and Knowledge-Based Organizations. 123
Chapter 8. Managing Rights in a Medium Scale Audio Digitization Project
Page 125
Chatper 9. The In-House Digital Laboratory: Possibilities and Responsibilities
Page 136
Chapter 10. Building a Virtual Library – A Case Study at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
Page 154
Chapter 11. Local Objects, Local People, Local History: Creating the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database
Page 172
Chapter 12. Digitizing the Rare Book Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute
Page 185
Chapter 13. The Caprons of Paris: A Digitization Project in a Small Library System
Page 195
Chapter 14. The Mass. Memories Road Show: A State-Wide Scanning Project
Page 223
Chapter 15. Picturing the Museum: Education and Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
Page 242
Part 3. The Digital Campus: Digitization in Universities and Their Libraries
Page 259
Chapter 16. Developing an Institutional Repository at Southern New Hampshire University: Year One
Page 261
Chapter 17. Digitization of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Page 274
Chapter 18. New Jersey Digital Legal Library
Page 289
Chapter 19. Pratt Institute: A Historical Snapshot of Campus and Area
Page 302
Chapter 20. Scaling Back for an “Experimental” Collection
Page 321
Chapter 21. From Confusion and Chaos to Clarity and Hope: Reorganization of Work Flows, Processes, and Delivery for Digital Libraries
Page 333
Chapter 22. Digitizing Colorado State University’s Historic Photograph Collection: A Case Study
Page 355
Chapter 23. Entering the Digitization Universe: One Catalog Librarian’s Experience at an Academic Library
Page 370
Chapter 24. From Argentina to Zambia: Capturing the Digital A to Z’s of a Child Art Collection
Page 383
Chapter 25. Special Collections, Digitization, and the Classroom: A New Model
Page 402
Part 4. One Plus One is Greater Than Two: Collaborative Projects
Page 421
Chapter 26. Digital Treasures: The Evolution of a Digital Repository in Massachusetts
Page 423
Chapter 27. Collaborative Digitization Goes Local
Page 435
Chapter 28. Picturing the Past and Planning for the Future: Central Florida Memory
Page 450
Chapter 29. Apollo 13.0: Digitizing Astronaut Jack Swigert’s Apollo Documents
Page 470
Chapter 30. Collaborative-Centered Digital Curation: A Case Study at Clemson University Libraries
Page 490
Chapter 31. The Craft Revival Project: Library Leadership in Creating Connections between Small Cultural Institutions
Page 503
Chapter 32. Hudson River Valley Heritage: A Journey in Collaborative Digitization
Page 518
Chapter 33. Collaborating for Success: A Cross-Departmental Digitization Project
Page 541
Chapter 34. Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections: The METRO Case Study
Page 556

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Z701.3.D54 D54 2010

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Paperback
Number of pages
577

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