| FEATURES
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Scanning for
Digitization Projects
You can just slap pages
onto a scanner or you can capture every pixel in all its glory. Think
about it: You can make better archival images if you really understand
what scan drivers do, how scanners use light, and how to choose file
formats. This primer can help you become a super scanner.
by Larry Wentzel
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Weaving the Past into the
Present by Digitizing Local History
The people in charge of a project called Digital Past have managed to
get more than 30 organizations to weave their resources together to
form a colorful Web site of Illinois history. Contributors started
digitizing back in the ’90s before scanning was standardized,
and they’ve managed to change along with the times ever since.
by Kay Schlumpf and Rob
Zschernitz
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On Your
Mark, Get Set, Go! Overview of a Digital Project from Start to Finish
Rome
wasn’t built in a day, nor was an online collection of 105
years’ worth of association publications. But a team of
Georgia librarians had the stamina for a marathon project that lasted 2
years. Members even built their own digital library system along the
way, and so far, the finished site has logged more than 65,000 unique
visits.
by Doug Goans, Pam
Hackbart-Dean, and Lauren Kata
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| COLUMNS
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Libraries
in Computers
File Formats and the
Librarian’s Supersuit
By Daniel Chudnov
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The Systems Librarian
An Update on Open Source
ILS
By Marshall
Breeding
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Online Treasures
By Digitizing, Are We
Trading Future Accessibility for Current Availability?
By Janet L. Balas
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Building Digital Libraries
Cool Tips for Digital
Curators
By Terence K.
Huwe
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| DEPARTMENTS |
Editor’s Notes
Digging into Digitizing
By Kathy Dempsey
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Noted & Quoted |
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Books to Check Out |
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Tech Tips for Every Librarian
Buy the Book
By
Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens |
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44 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION |
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Computers in
Libraries 2007 Conference Preview |
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39 |
| ADVERTISING |
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Library Tech Connection |
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47 |
| Index to Advertisers |
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