Basics - For OPAL Members: OPAL and Digitization - LibGuides at Wilmington College [OH]

Books from OPAL/OhioLINK

Creating digital collections : a practical guide / Allison B. Zhang and Don Gourley

ISBN: 978-0-935995-10-7

Cornell e-Commons

The idea of order : transforming research collections for 21st century scholarship - The idea of order : transforming research collections for 21st century scholarship

Digital scholarship / edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. - New York : Routledge, 2009

Electronic collection management forms, policies, procedures, and guidelines manual with CD-ROM / Rebecca Brumley. - New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009.

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OPAL and Digitization

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Digitization -- Definitions and Terms

Please feel free to add links to web resources that could be useful for OPAL members seeking to understand digitization project planning and related terms and concepts:

Why Digitize? by Abby Smith, CLIR 1999 (dated but still very relevant). "As Donald Waters of the Digital Library Federation has expressed it, the promise of digital technology is for libraries to extend the reach of research and education, improve the quality of learning, and reshape scholarly communication."

2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature. College & Research Libraries News (June 2010). vol. 71 no. 6, 286-292. "Digitization of unique library collections will increase and require a larger share of resources."

Marilu Goodyear and Richard Fyffe. (March/April 2006). Institutional Repositories: An Opportunity for CIO Campus Impact. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2: 10–11. "It is important that the CIO see (and seize) the opportunity presented by a new IR program ..."

Glossary for Digitization Project (NCEcho) by Jean
Production Basics (NCEcho) by Jean
Article in Education Research Complete by Jean
Northam, A. (2010). We Started a Digital Collection for Next to Nothing and YOU CAN TOO. Computers in Libraries, 30(5), 14-18. in Education Research Complete full-text.