Digitizing your community's history
Subtitle: the innovative librarian's guide
By: Alex Hoffman
Series: Innovative librarian's guide series; Innovative librarian's guide
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781440842405
Subjects: Local history materials; Public services (Libraries); Digitization; Libraries and community
Description: " Follow the blueprint in this book to launch a library DIY community history digitization program--one that provides the access and fosters engagement with patrons to sustain the program over time. Takes readers through establishing local history digitization projects at the community level from start to finish, providing guidance on how to set up, maintain, and sustain ongoing digitization projects. Describes how to train library users for digitization--instructions that are also applicable for including volunteers in digitization projects. Explains how creating a DIY history digitization project can provide a community benefit and serve as a form of outreach that also enriches a library's local history collection"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics; title: Getting started; title: What to digitize; title: The equipment; title: The digitization process; title: Storage and backups; title: Tech instruction; title: Programs, display and access; title: The future of digitization; title: Review.