Donald L Dewitt

Going Digital (eBook, PDF)

Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format is a collection of articles orginally presented at a series of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group. It offers you succinct and analytic views of the problems and benefits of digital resources in the traditional academic library. Library administrators, collection managers, and librarians will learn the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and digital collections and the costs of providing local access or implementing remote access to digital collections. Originally presented at a series of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group, the articles inGoing Digital will help you decide upon a cost-effective collection method that will meet the needs of your library, your patrons, and your budget.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135786083
• Artikelnr.: 39265709

Autorenporträt

Donald L Dewitt

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
* Part I: Strategies for Access and Preservation
* Introduction
* Partners and Alliances
* Local or Remote Access: Choices and Issues
* Building Xanadu: Creating the New Library Paradise
* Return to the Valley of the Dolls: Reflections on Changing Lanes
Along the Information Superhighway
* Digital Preservation and Access: Liberals and Conservatives
* From Analog to Digital: Extending the Preservation Tool Kit
* Long-Term Intellectual Preservation
* Transforming Libraries Through Digital Preservation
* Part 2: Strategies for Selecting Collections for Conversion to a
Digital Format
* Why Make Images Available Online: User Perspectives
* Options for Digitizing Visual Materials
* The Role of Digitization in Building Electronic Collections: Economic
and Programmatic Choices
* Mapping the Intersection of Selection and Funding
* What Will Collection Development Do?
* The Technology Context
* The Access Context
* The Copyright Context
* The Preservation Context
* The Collection Management Perspective
* The Public Services Perspective
* The Systems Perspective
* The Preservation Perspective
* Institutionalizing Digitization
* Index