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An Introduction to Digital Preservation
Archive and associated resources for December 15, 2010, webinar with Lisa A. Gregory, Jennifer Ricker and Amy Rudersdorf presenting on digital preservation.
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Best Practices and Planning for Digitization Projects
The success of a project is generally in proportion to the time spent in planning the project. To help you avoid some of the pitfalls here are some recommendations and resources for planning a digital imaging project.
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Bite-size Digital History Webinar
Learn to use Microsoft PhotoStory 3 to create digital history documentaries. Originally presented December 2, 2008.
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Book Repair Manuals and Tutorials
A few links to repair manuals online.
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Book repair videos
Three short videos on book repair
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Building Digital Community: Arizona Memory Project
Archive and associated resources for February 9, 2010, session with Richard Prouty as part of the Technology Essentials 2010, online conference.
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CML prepares to receive another genealogy collection!
The Palatines to America Society, which specializes in German ancestral research, has selected CML to receive their unique collection. It includes materials from areas in Switzerland, Austria, France and Poland where significant German-speaking populations lived. Once processed, the collection will be made available to public sometime in early 2009.
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Community History Goes Digital
A recording of the online workshop on digitizing community history collections. Stuart Hinds, Web Content Developer for the Johnson County Library (KS), gives an overview of the digitization process, insights into what works, and lessons learned, followed by a rich question and comment session with the live audience. Size: ~6 MB
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Competencies for Preservation
Preservation covers a wide range of activities: repairing the physical damage to well-used materials; transforming physical materials into digital format; or preserving the historic record or other notable resource collections.
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CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group’s Best Practices Guide, version 1.9
This document represents the efforts to develop best practices guidelines for providing metadata both useful to the local community and suitable for harvesting externally.
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Digitization & Preservation Symposium
Archive and associated resources for August 25, 2010, online symposium with Sarah McHugh, Amy Rudersdorf and Taylor Surface presenting on current trends and practical approaches to library digitization and preservation projects.
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Digitize--You Can Do It!
How the Hannibal (MO) Free Public Library made its unique history available to the town--and the world.
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Every Pixel Tells a Story: The Illinois Digital Archives
Through the Illinois Digital Archives the Illinois State library works with libraries, museums, and historical societies to provide a statewide searchable repository of materials related to Illinois history.
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Finding Funds for Preservation
Archive and related resources from May 5, 2009 webinar with Diane Vogt-O’Connor on sources of funding for library preservation.
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Glossary of Scanning and Digital Imaging Terms
Alyce Scott helps explain some of the most common and confusing terms used in digitization projects.
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Illinois' State Wide Archival Technology Team (SWAT)
The Macomb Public Library District worked with the digital imaging staff of the Illinois State Library (ISL) to enhance the Illinois Digital Archive (IDA), a part of the Find-It! Illinois Web site (finditillinois.org) through the Statewide Archival Technology Team (SWAT).
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Lillooet Library: Digitizing the St'at'imc Language
A British Columbia library uses its Web site to preserve and promote local cultural heritage.
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Magic Fingers: Digitization by Any Other Name (March 2006)
George explains how when digits aren't fingers they can still be magical.
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Making Digital Images Accessible to the Visually Impaired Through Audio Des
The Illinois Alive digital imaging project uses audio description to make the images accessible to people with visual impairments.
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NCPC Conference Fundraising for Collections Preservation and Conservation
2009 North Carolina Preservation Consortium Annual Conference
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