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			RESOURCES Costs "Hey, What About Access?: A guide to practical decision making" Roy Tennant. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~manager/Presentations/SFS/Seattle/ Besser, Howard. "Digital Image Distribution" D-Lib Magazine 5(10) (October 1999) (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october99/10besser.html). - This paper is a report on the UC Berkeley study The Cost of Digital Imaging Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/). The purpose of the study was to explore such questions as "As we construct new electronic information systems, what are the implications of merging content and metadata from multiple sources? How do the costs and services in a digital distribution scheme differ from those in an analog one? What steps can we take to entice users who currently rely upon analog resources to begin seriously employing digital resources?" Specifically, the study focuses on the experiences of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), which began in 1995. The bulk of the paper describes a number of interesting findings from the project and the subsequent analysis. Although Besser is an advocate for digital imaging, he pulls no punches here in identifying key problem areas and issues that require resolution. This paper is essential reading for anyone interested in digital image collections. - Review by Roy Tennant Puglia, Steve. "The Costs of Digital Imaging" RLG DigiNews (October 1999). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-5.html#feature -includes several projections/cost models for the long-term maintenance of digital image files. Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000. Anyone digitizing visual resources owes it to their project to study the information at this site. Collected together in one location is some of the best advice on digital imaging from top-notch experts in the field. Practical information is offered on planning a project, selecting a scanner, factors affecting image quality, measuring quality of digital masters, and file formats for master files. This is not a static publication, but will be updated periodically to keep it up-to-date with current standards and best practices. An excellent resource from the Association of Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/ Training Hastings, Kirk, and Roy Tennant. "How to Build a Digital Librarian" D-lib Magazine, November 1996. Workflow and Production: National Digital Library Program and the Conservation Division: Conservation Implications of Digitization Projects. A discussion of roles of conservation consultation, training, and treatment for scanning in NDLP digital image conversion projects. Written by conservators who have worked with NDLP projects since the beginning of the program in 1995. (1999) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/conservation.html Document Imaging Quality Review Training Guide. Instructions for reviewing scanned images received from contractors. (April 1999) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/qintro.htm Steps in the Digitization Process. A one page summary of the general digitization workflow. (January 1996) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/stepsdig.html Training Courses: School for Scanning, Northeast Documentation Conservation Center Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and Conservation Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial by Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial A comprehensive tutorial on digitizing and preserving documents. Topics covered here include terminology, conversion concepts, quality control, metadata, file management, document delivery and links to additional educational resources relevant to digitization. Workshop schedule http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/index.html Three-Day UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management: Summer, Fall 2000, Winter 2001 See [http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com] for a copy of the course description. For those persons who cannot attend the class, all of the printed class materials are available free at [http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com] "This course is for managers who have been assigned to manage a document imaging system or digital library, and must start immediately. This courseis designed to assist managers to be more effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document imaging and document management to their organizations… " All printed instructional materials are available free at [http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com] All of the materials can be downloaded with a single click and then printed with a single click. A bound copy of the course materials (280 pages) is also available. The materials are updated from time to time, please check version numbers. Instructor: SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com, BA CS, MBA, MLS Specialization in Information Science, CDIA (Certified Document Imaging System Architect), CRM (Certified Records Manager), Sr. Systems Engineer, www.ArchiveBuilders.com +1 (310) 937-7000, Fax: +1 (310) 937-7001. Vendors Collaborative Digitization Program, Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 1.0. These standards were developed by the Western States Digital Digital Imaging Working Group, January 2003: Gertz, Janet. Columbia University Libraries. "Vendor Relations" pp. 141-153, Handbook For Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover: Northeast Documentation Conservation Center, 2000 (PDF version, pp. 150-163) Planning General list of "Questions to Ask" from Collaborative Digitization Program site http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/projectManagement/index.cfm "Who is my audience?" Audience: Market Segments and Their Information Needs Collaborative Digitization Program http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/reports/rsrc_users.html Project Planning: Colorado Digitization Project: Digital Resources http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/techResources.cfm http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/softwareResources.cfm Library of Congress, National Digital Library Program NDLP Project Planning Checklist http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/prjplan.html The New York Public Library's Digital History Projects Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections NYPL http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/ REFERENCES GENERAL Library of Congress. Related Technical Information: National Digital Library Competition. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/tech97.html Includes references and links to numerous documents relating to the development and production of digital library projects. The Digital Library Toolkit. Sun Microsystems, March 2000 http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries/digital_library_toolkit.pdf Glossary Colorado Glossary http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction/rsrc_glossary.html