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Informationen zum Autor Joy M. Perrin is the Digital Resources Librarian at Texas Tech University where she is the head of the Digital Resources Unit. Her experience with digital collections spans 9 years and includes work in the Digital Library Initiatives Team where she got experience planning digital projects, experience managing the libraries' digital lab, and working with digital library systems and metadata. Klappentext Here is a concise guide to the nuts and bolts of converting flat media (books, papers, maps, posters, slides, micro formats, etc) into digital files. It provides librarians and archivists with the practical knowledge to understand the process and decision making in the digitization of flat media. Instead of having to learn by trial and error, they will get a well-rounded education of the practical aspects of digitization and have a better understanding of their options. This is the stuff they don't teach you in school. Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices is intended to give librarians and archivists the benefit a seasoned digitization professional guiding them and helping them figure out exactly what needs to be done when. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Principles for Starting a Digitization ProjectChapter 2: Principles for Different Material TypesChapter 3: ScannersChapter 4: Other EquipmentChapter 5: Digital File BasicsChapter 6: Software and ProcessingChapter 7: Metadata in PracticeChapter 8: Digitization Project Planning PrinciplesChapter 9: A Digital Collection's Life After DigitizationIndexAbout the Author
