1. Brigid Burke Technical Services & Digital Projects Librarian Fairleigh Dickinson University

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300,000 Books

500 Maps

Special collections:

• 5,000 items in Madison Archives (not including Sammartino Archives)

• 7,000 items in Hackensack Archives

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No organized digital projects

Canon scanner and Photoshop

No server for digital projects

No budget for digital projects

No staff (except for me)

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Money, money, money

Who is interested in our collections?

In house or outsource?

Where are we going to put it?

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Small projects can be done in house:

• 100 pages of text, 100 images, or less

• Text, photo, or audio sources

• Size of text/photos cannot be greater than 8 x 11

Larger projects require grant funding

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Talk to University Advancement officedeal with privately funded grants, alumni donations.

Talk to Alumni Association, Friends of the Library, other interested groups.

Find out what archival materials are being requested from Reference and Archives staff.

Think about the history of your library, your materials, your university or town.

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Keep it small, focused, and measurable

Read the grant guidelines carefully

Look at samples of grants from previous recipients

Basic parts of a grant:

• State your objective clearly

• State why its important

• Provide a reasonable budget

• Provide a mechanism for determining if youve met your objective

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The FDU Library opted to purchase Content dm software, licensing, and hosting from OCLC.

Other options:

In-house only database

Your university (or library or municipality)s web server

Purchase web server space

Cloud computing services

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A scanner

A program for editing scanned images

Software for converting podcasts or other sound files to MP3s

PDF creator and editor

Computer storage space

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Start with small projects

Simple metadata (DC is easiest and most flexible)

Finish one project before starting another

Test project?

Look to current digitization articles and best practices sites for guidance

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Picasa3 (Photos) :http://picasa.google.com/

Picnik(Photos) :http://www.picnik.com/

Audacity (Sound Files) :http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Switch Sound File Converter (Sound Files) :http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

CT Developing (PDF creation/editing) :http://www.ctdeveloping.com/ctdeveloping/products/pdftypewriter_info.asp

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Dspace, Greenstone, ePrints (Repository software) :

http://www.dspace.org/

http://www.greenstone.org/

http://www.eprints.org/

WordPress (interface and hosting options)

http://wordpress.org/

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Penn State :http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/bestpractices.html#internet

Washington State Library:http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/projectmgmt/index.htm

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LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative (ends January 2011)http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx

NJ Digital Highwayhttp://www.njdigitalhighway.org

DASH (eBrary)http://www.ebrary.com/kb/librarian/dash.jsp