1. Digitization for Beginners
Resource List
Planning tools
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George Washington University, Cultural Imaging Project, Cost Calculator
http://library.gwu.edu/collections/digitize/cost-calculator
Equipment/ Technical
Image Quality Calculator. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2002.
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/calculator/image_calc.asp
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DYI book scanner http://www.diybookscanner.org/
Copyright
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Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can Use Freely
http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/content.php?pid=119432&sid=1042184
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Copyright Slider, 2012. Michael Brewer & ALA Office for Information Technology Policy.
http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/
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U.S. Copyright Office. (2010). How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work. (United States
Copyright Office Circular no. 22). Retrieved from http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.pdf
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Besek, J. (2009). Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and
Disemmination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives. (CLIR
Publication no. 144). Retrieved from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub144/pub144.pdf
Best Practices
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ALA: Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations (2013)
http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preserv/minimum-digitization-capture-recommendations
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Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
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National Archives: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access:
Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images (2004)
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.html
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Library of Congress: Building Digital Collections: Technical Information about American Memory
Collections http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/digcols.html
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BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (2008) http://mwdl.org/docs/digitalimaging-bp_2.0.pdf

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Besek, J. (2009). Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and
Disemmination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives. (CLIR
Publication no. 144). Retrieved from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub144/pub144.pdf
Metadata
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Dublin Core User Guide
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide
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Library of Congress Digital Library Standards
http://www.loc.gov/standards/
Glossaries
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/glossary/
Funding
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IMLS http://www.imls.gov/, large grants
LSTA- available through local state library
Foundation Center Directory
The Foundation Directory is a database designed to help people find grants. A list of network
libraries with access to this database is at http://foundationcenter.org/fin/index.html
Examples and Case studies
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Ardmore Public Library, McGalliard Collection
http://www.ardmorelibrary.org/about/McGalliard.htm
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Bangor Public Library, Posters of World War II
http://www.bpl.lib.me.us/warposters/warpostersindex.html
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Delta City Library, Beckwith Papers
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/search/collection/DC_Beckwith
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Flora Public Library, The Charles Overstreet Collection
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/fpl
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New Mexico State Library, Digital Archive
http://nmdigital.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/p267801coll5
Cases on Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse
Environments, edited by Janice Krueger, IGI Global, 2013.
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