DIGITIZING IN A MATERIAL WORLD

A symposium on Planning, Preserving and Accessing a variety of materials in a digital collection.

October 18, 2007 - 10AM - 4:30PM

Santa Monica Public Library

Speaker Presentations:

Material Concerns – Capture, format and find 
• Planning a digitization project - overview - Trudy Levy - Image Integration
• Pictorial documents/object/imaging - John Sarnoski, Director, ResCarta Foundation

Material Concerns- Part II
• Newspaper documents - Geri Ingram - OCLC Digital Collection Services
• Text documents: Mary Reinsch Sackett, Research Library, Head of Visual Media Services, The Getty Research Institute

      Digital Repositories: define, create and manage (independent model)

• Create your own digital repository - Leah Prescott, Digital Projects Coordinator, The Getty Research Institute

Making it Happen
• Finding Funds: State Grants - Ira Bray
• Digital Respository (collaborative model): CDL Digital Repository Services - Adrian Turner, CDL Data Consultant
• Califa Collaborative Model: Consortia Discounts - Roberto Esteves, Califa Program Advisor

Evaluating software
• Comparing integrated library systems with specialized digital collection systems - Maureen A. Burns, Ed.D., Humanities Curator, Visual Resources Collection and Victoria O'Riordan, Visual Resources Curator, UCSD Arts Libraries

Copyright
• Program Title TBA - David Nimmer, librarian/attorney