This document provides guidance and options for digitizing and sharing a library's collections online. It discusses determining copyright and getting rights to share items. Common digitization equipment like scanners is mentioned, as well as software for scanning, editing images, and platforms for hosting digital collections like Omeka, Viewshare, Flickr, and Tumblr. Volunteer help and student assistants are offered as options for digitization work.

1. Amanda Stone
South Carolina State Library
astone@statelibrary.sc.gov

2.  Photographs
 Letters
 Books
 Maps
 Documents
 Public Domain e-books
 Videos
 Oral History
 Anything we have the rights*
to put online!

3.  How do we know if we have the rights to put our collections
online?
 Follow normal copyright laws
 http://www.librarylaw.com/DigitizationTable.htm
 http://www.mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/library_tools/copyright_/copyr
ightdigitize/
 Add digital rights statement to future donor agreements,
secure agreement if possible on past collections
 Carefully-phrased copyright statements are your friend
It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or
other use restrictions when reproducing materials found in
the Libraries' collections. (U of Miami)

4.  If you can buy 1 big-ticket
item, buy the best scanner
you can afford.
 Epson Expression 10000xl is a
common workhorse ~$4,500
 But 600 dpi, 24-bit color,
large enough for your needs
good enough for now!
 Ask Friends Groups, Family
Trusts, Local Businesses—set
up a tip jar for donations. http://megawattpr.wordpr
ess.com/2008/09/

6.  Volunteers
 Interns from local colleges
 Really responsible Teen Groups
 Make it a part-time responsibility for a couple of
people
 Scanning on a smaller service desk (Richland
Library’s South Carolina Room)
 Student Assistants at USC Political Collections,
http://library.sc.edu/scpc/intstud.html

7.  Software that comes with your scanner
may be fine to use for now (Epson
Scan, Nikon Scan, Canon ScanGear)
 Make sure you can save in formats and
resolution you want
 There is other scan software for fairly
cheap: VueScan, SilverFast SE

8.  GIMP
 Paint.net
 Irfanview
Resize/Crop
Change format
Rotate
Fix blemishes
Edit colors
Use as scanning software!

10.  Omeka
 Viewshare
 Flickr
 Tumblr
 Facebook

11.  Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-
publishing platform for the display of library, museum,
archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
 From the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New
Media and George Mason University
 For non-IT specialists
 Omeka.net: Basic plan for free, $49-999 a year
Collections, Tagging, Controlled Vocabulary, Google
Maps, Timelines, RSS feeds, QR Codes, and more!

12. omeka.wabcphilly.org

13.  Viewshare is a free platform for generating and
customizing views that allow users to experience
your digital collections.
 From the Library of Congress
 Does not host digital images, creates interfaces to your
online digital collections
Interactive maps, Timelines, Facets, Tag clouds

14. http://viewshare.org/views/localhistory1431/lower-richland-historic-houses/

15. http://viewshare.org/views/localhistory1431/lower-richland-historic-houses/

16.  Online photo management and sharing application
 Free account-2 videos, 300MB of photos every month
 Pro account-unlimited pretty much everything 1 year
for $24.95
 Pickens County Library
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcls
 Pros-very easy, Google-friendly
 Cons-not branded to your organization, not
necessarily long-term storage
* made with spell with flickr

18.  Social media site for posting text, photos, quotes,
links, music, and videos.
 Lowcountry Digital Library
 http://lowcountrydigitallibrary.tumblr.com/
 Pros-easy, nice looking interface, Google-friendly
 Cons-not branded to your organization, not long-term
storage
 PS-check out womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com

20.  Adding historical photos to Facebook
 Pros-easy to use, comments on individual items, works
with your existing social media
 Cons-not branded to your organization, not long-term
storage

21. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491391854244522.122674.162696527114058&type=3

22. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491391854244522.122674.162696527114058&type=3

24.  The Ultimate List of Historical Digital Collections in
SC
 http://scln.statelibrary.sc.gov/index.php?title=List_of_D
igital_Collections_in_South_Carolina_Organizations
 60 entities
 12 public libraries
 31 academic, 16 are USC
 17 are historical societies,
museums, state agencies
Public libraries with
digital collections

25.  Preserving History: http://archivehistory.jeksite.org/
 Copyright & Cultural Institutions
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142