Digitization in the Real World
Subtitle: Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects
Publisher: Metropolitan New York Library Council
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 577
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Small is Beautiful: Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects with Limited Resources; label: Chapter 1
title: DIY Digitization: Creating a Small-scale Digital Zine Exhibit
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Digitizing Civil Rights: An Omeka-based Pilot Digital Presence for the Queens College Civil Rights Archive
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 3
title: Digitization on a Dime: How a Small Library and a Big Team of Volunteers Digitized 15,000 Obituaries in Just Over a Year
pagenum: 41; label: Chapter 4
title: Building the ALBA Digital Library
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter 5
title: Digitization and Access of Louisiana Oral Histories: One Oral History Center’s Experience in the Digital Realm
pagenum: 68; label: Chapter 6
title: Digitizing a Newspaper Clippings Collection: a Case Study and Framework for Small-Scale Digital Projects
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 7
title: METRO Grant Success Story: Waterways of New York Project
pagenum: 100; label: Part 2 – A Diverse Digital Landscape: Digital Collections in Public Libraries, Museums, Cultural Heritage Institutions, and Knowledge-Based Organizations
title: 123; label: Chapter 8
title: Managing Rights in a Medium Scale Audio Digitization Project
pagenum: 125; label: Chatper 9
title: The In-House Digital Laboratory: Possibilities and Responsibilities
pagenum: 136; label: Chapter 10
title: Building a Virtual Library – A Case Study at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
pagenum: 154; label: Chapter 11
title: Local Objects, Local People, Local History: Creating the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database
pagenum: 172; label: Chapter 12
title: Digitizing the Rare Book Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute
pagenum: 185; label: Chapter 13
title: The Caprons of Paris: A Digitization Project in a Small Library System
pagenum: 195; label: Chapter 14
title: The Mass. Memories Road Show: A State-Wide Scanning Project
pagenum: 223; label: Chapter 15
title: Picturing the Museum: Education and Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
pagenum: 242; label: Part 3
title: The Digital Campus: Digitization in Universities and Their Libraries
pagenum: 259; label: Chapter 16
title: Developing an Institutional Repository at Southern New Hampshire University: Year One
pagenum: 261; label: Chapter 17
title: Digitization of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive
pagenum: 274; label: Chapter 18
title: New Jersey Digital Legal Library
pagenum: 289; label: Chapter 19
title: Pratt Institute: A Historical Snapshot of Campus and Area
pagenum: 302; label: Chapter 20
title: Scaling Back for an “Experimental” Collection
pagenum: 321; label: Chapter 21
title: From Confusion and Chaos to Clarity and Hope: Reorganization of Work Flows, Processes, and Delivery for Digital Libraries
pagenum: 333; label: Chapter 22
title: Digitizing Colorado State University’s Historic Photograph Collection: A Case Study
pagenum: 355; label: Chapter 23
title: Entering the Digitization Universe: One Catalog Librarian’s Experience at an Academic Library
pagenum: 370; label: Chapter 24
title: From Argentina to Zambia: Capturing the Digital A to Z’s of a Child Art Collection
pagenum: 383; label: Chapter 25
title: Special Collections, Digitization, and the Classroom: A New Model
pagenum: 402; label: Part 4
title: One Plus One is Greater Than Two: Collaborative Projects
pagenum: 421; label: Chapter 26
title: Digital Treasures: The Evolution of a Digital Repository in Massachusetts
pagenum: 423; label: Chapter 27
title: Collaborative Digitization Goes Local
pagenum: 435; label: Chapter 28
title: Picturing the Past and Planning for the Future: Central Florida Memory
pagenum: 450; label: Chapter 29
title: Apollo 13.0: Digitizing Astronaut Jack Swigert’s Apollo Documents
pagenum: 470; label: Chapter 30
title: Collaborative-Centered Digital Curation: A Case Study at Clemson University Libraries
pagenum: 490; label: Chapter 31
title: The Craft Revival Project: Library Leadership in Creating Connections between Small Cultural Institutions
pagenum: 503; label: Chapter 32
title: Hudson River Valley Heritage: A Journey in Collaborative Digitization
pagenum: 518; label: Chapter 33
title: Collaborating for Success: A Cross-Departmental Digitization Project
pagenum: 541; label: Chapter 34
title: Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections: The METRO Case Study
pagenum: 556