WLA Task Force on Technology Utilization
Topic Paper

Digitization

As librarians come to rely upon rapid electronic access to full text documents for their patrons, there is increasing demand to also make more documents electronically accessible. Digitizing and storing basic documents might be a way to quickly provide those documents to remote users

What might we want to digitize?

• Handbook
• Leadership manual

Concerns

Access: Should everyone have access to membership-only documents? 

Archival issues: what do we keep? how do we keep it? 

Links

"Digitization for Librarians" WLA conference talk by Andrew Barnett, Assistant Director, McMillan Memorial Library (http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcm/programs/digitize.html)

Digital Project Resources from the Colorado Digital Alliance (http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/toolbox.html), especially the "Questions to ask" section (http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/question.html)

Introduction to the UCLA Digital Library, contains useful information about planning and budgeting for digitization projects (http://digital.library.ucla.edu/about/intropage.html)

Anderson, Elizabeth, et. al. Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Based Preservation Project. in PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/tm-2056.pdf