Issues and Answers in Digitization Workshop Series
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SPONSORED BY
CENDI, FLICC, and FADGI
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room (6th floor)
Digitization Deconstructed:
A Survey and Census of Digital Repositories Being Built by Federal Libraries
Deborah Keller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The FLICC Preservation and Digitization Working Group Survey Committee has adopted the mission of assessing the federal library community to determine what digitization projects are currently being undertaken within federal libraries, the infrastructure that is being used to support these efforts, and the ongoing needs of the libraries as they pursue digital initiatives. Ms. Keller will share the planning and early data collection stages of a multi-year effort to survey the federal library community about its digitization efforts. Although there have been several efforts to collect data about digitization projects underway within federal libraries in the past few years, none of these have been completely successful and many federal librarians still feel that they do not know what digital projects are being undertaken at other libraries. This survey intends to differentiate itself from previous efforts in several important ways. First, it intends to focus more on the digitization processes and conditions within the library that encourage or inhibit digitization projects than on the content being digitized. Second, it attempts to identify and obtain responses from all federal libraries rather than relying on voluntary responses.
- Biography of Deborah Keller
- Presentation Slides (.pdf)
- Webcast of the presentation (.jar file, 199MB, requires Java runtime environment to open and run)
