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Planning for Digitization
Public Library Partnership Project
Jennifer Birnel, Montana Memory Project Digital Public Library of America
September 2015
You have considered creating a digital collection but…
How do I begin?
Is it worth the time and effort?
How do I convince my administrators of the importance?
What about the cost of resources – equipment and people?
What is digitization?
It is a process.
1. Selection2. Cataloging3. Reformatting4. Sharing
Access and Discovery
Contribute to the local, state, regional, and national historical record about people, places, and events.
Improve accessibility to special collections.
Preservation
Protects rare content Increase usability of materials otherwise inaccessible due to condition
Institutional Web Presence
Increase visibility of institution and collections.
Improve traffic to your online resources and your website.
Partnerships
Combine resources in your local community
Partners improve your reach
Partners share knowledge & learn
Image courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection via Digital Commonwealth.
One piece of a whole
5 Tips for Getting Started with a Digitization Project
Tip 1: Where?
Decide where the content will live.Can a partner host it for you?Can you host it locally?Do you need to purchase space?
Tip 2: When?Know your timeline.
Do you have a deadline?When can you begin?How long will it take?Will you have help?
Tip 3: How?Consider the staff & resources required.
Will partners help with the work? Is there a DPLA hub in your state?Will you use a vendor for any of the work?Do you need to purchase equipment?
Tip 4: Why?
Be ready to explain why it is important to create digital collections.Access Discover Use
Tip 5: What?Select the items you will digitize.
See the Selecting Content module in this curriculum for more information.