Fueled by recent public and private efforts to improve access to scholarly works, academic libraries and archives  are increasingly digitizing their special col

The new Polish Copyright Act [link in Polish] enters into force on 20th November 2015 bringing library services in Poland into the twenty-first century. Major new provisions enabling digitization for socially beneficial purposes, such as education and preservation of cultural heritage, are the centrepiece for libraries of the new law.

Why isn't everything on the internet? BECAUSE DIGITIZATION AIN'T MAGIC.

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For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making …

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Thursday, Nov. 12, Future Tense will...

Scientific organizations around the world are turning to digital technology to reveal collections that have long been hidden.

Bibliography on Cost Assessment and Digitization Workflow Best Practices in Digital Libraries  Compiled by Joyce Chapman, Kinza Masood, Chrissy Rissmeyer, and Dan Zellner Formatted in APA 6th Edition  This bibliography was compiled in the spring of 2015 as part of the Digital Library Federation A...

Digitization projects: processes and definitions For the Digitization Cost Calculator project  Digitization projects: processes and definitions Overview What is not included in the Digitization Cost Calculator Preparation of original materials Image capture Quality control Post-processing Descri...

This post was written by Katelyn Dion, Digital Archives Assistant in the Special Collections Library. Penn State Special Collections Library is home to approximately 70,000 unique audio/visual (A/V…

Through the Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), DPLA has been working with existing DPLA Service Hubs to provide digital skills training for public librarians and connect them sustainably with state and regional resources for digitizing, describing, and exhibiting their cultural heritage content. Through the project workshops, we used this curriculum to introduce 150 public librarians to the digitization process. Now at the end of the project, we’ve made this curriculum available in a self-guided version intended for digitization beginners from a variety of cultural heritage institutions.

The University of Iowa is home to almost a century of fandom history. Its library’s special collections house everything from 1920s "dime novel" reviews to T-shirts that were auctioned off in...

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents  Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so.

Preserve old media formats with audio, document and video transfer services from Holder Printworks in Madison, WI. We serve the local community for a personal touch.

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SobekCM allows users to discover online resources via semantic and full-text searches, as well as a variety of different browse mechanisms. For each digital resource in the repository there are a plethora of display options, which may be selected by an appropriately authenticated use. This repository includes online metadata editing and online submissions in support of institutional repositories.

Oscar Grady Public Library’s Digital Media Conversion Lab is now open to the public! The new Digital Lab provides all of the equipment and training necessary to view and digitally preserve ph…