Starting a Digitization Center (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing, finding partners/collaborators, locating training and online resources, obtaining funding, setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online.

• Stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners and working with others
• Serves as a practical handbook and it acts as a manual, and guides readers to finding more advanced resources
• Focuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget

Cokie Anderson has been an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University since 2000, and directs the University Library’s Electronic Publishing Center. She is one of the founding members of , a collaborative effort by Oklahoma libraries, archives, and museums to digitise cultural materials.