Digitization in Special Collections Bibliography

General Reading
Mass Digitization Agreements & Related Topics
Funding & Support
Best practices documentation
Metadata starting points
Technical metadata standards
Descriptive metadata content standards
Descriptive metadata structure standards
Digital Preservation (United States)

General Reading

Calhoun, Karen. "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration."17 Mar. 2006. <www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf>.

Darnton, Robert. "The Library in the New Age." The New York Review of Books. 12 June 2008 <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514>.

"Digitization matters: Breaking through the barriers: Scaling up digitization of special collections." 29 Aug. 2007 <www.oclc.org/programs/events/2007-08-29.htm>.

Erway, Ricki. "Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation." Liber Quarterly 18 (2008), no. 3/4.

Evans, Max. "Archives of the people, by the people, for the people." The American Archivist 70 (2007): 387-400.

Malpas, Constance, and Merrilee Proffitt. "Copyright and Large-scale Digitization: Implications for Access." 10 Dec. 2007. <www.slideshare.net/NEERLG/cni-dec-2007-copyright-and-mass-dig-for-cni/>.

"Many More than a Million: Building the digital environment for the age of abundance." Council on Library and Information Resources. 28 Nov. 2007. <www.clir.org/activities/digitalscholar/Nov28final.pdf>.

Markey, Karen. "The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?" D-Lib Magazine. 2007 Jan./Feb. <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/markey/01markey.html>.

O’Connell, Pamela Licalzi. "One Picture, 1,000 Tags." New York Times. 28 Mar. 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28social.html>.

"OCLC Programs and Research PARcasts." OCLC Programs and Research PARcasts. Accessed: 14 May 2008 <www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/parcasts/default.htm>.

Proffitt, Merrilee and Jennifer Schaffner. “The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities." July 2008. http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2008-04.pdf

"Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control." Library of Congress. 30 Nov. 2007. 19 May 2008 <www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-report-draft-11-30-07-final.pdf>.

Smith, Abby . "The Research Library in the 21st Century: Collecting, Preserving, and Making Accessible Resources for Scholarship." Council on Library and Information Resources. 3 June 2008 <www.clir.org/activities/registration/08FebR21/Smith.pdf>.

Mass Digitization Agreements & Related Topics

OCLC Harmonizing Digitization program. “Public/Private Mass Digitization Agreements” http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/collectivecoll/harmonization/massdigresourcelist.htm
A comprehensive selection of materials about mass digitization, public/private partnerships,the agreements that govern them, and matters of policy and other related topics.

Funding & Support

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant Programs & Research

ARL Working Group on Special Collections

CLIR

IMLS National Leadership Grants

IMLS/NEH Advancing Knowledge Digital Partnership

NEH Grants programs

Best practices documentation

California Digital Library Digital Library Building Blocks - Best Practices and Standards

California Local History Digital Resources Project Handbook

BCR (fromally the Colorado Digitization Project) Best practices & Publications

Harvard Digital Imaging Services

University of Maryland Libraries - Best Practices Guidelines for Digital Collections

NARA: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access

NISO: A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

New York State Archives Imaging Production Guidelines 2006

University of North Texas Libraries - Scanning Standards by Type of Material

Picture Queensland Digitisation Resources

Yale University Digital Production and Integration Program

Metadata starting points

RLG Descriptive Metadata Guidelines. An overview of the issues in creating metadata for cultural heritage materials for a shared environment.

Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library (DLF/NSDL)
Best Practices for Shareable Metadata. An introduction to how to create "shareable" metadata

DLF Aquifer MODS Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records. Guidelines for using MODS to share metadata for the DLF Aquifer Initiative.

Tony Gill, Anne J. Gilliland, and Mary S. Woodley, Edited by Murtha Baca, Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, Online Edition, Version 2.1 (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust)

Casey, Mike and Bruce Gordon, Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation, Online Edition, (Indiand University and Harvard University), 2007.

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Last updated: January 2009