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Informationen zum Autor Joy M. Perrin is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Texas Tech University Libraries. She holds a Master of Library Science from the University of North Texas. Ms. Perrin has 22 years’ experience in libraries and is the author of the book Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices. Today, Joy is a tenured faculty member at Texas Tech University and the head of the Digital Resources Unit at the Texas Tech University Libraries. 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 Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Principles for Starting a Digitization Project Chapter 2:Principles for Different Material Types Chapter 3: Scanners Chapter 4: Other Equipment Chapter 5: Digital File Basics Chapter 6: Software and Processing Chapter 7: Metadata in Practice Chapter 8: Digitization Project Planning Principles Chapter 9: A Digital Collection's Life After Digitization Index About the Author
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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.
