Digitization for Librarians

with an emphasis on digitizing local history without busting your budget

My work, alone and in collaboration.

Digitization for Librarians
This program on digitizing local historical documents was presented at the 2001 Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians Convention. It has been revised it to address concerns raised about the problems of digitizing on (or without) a budget.

Digitization for Genealogists
A program presented to Wisconsin genealogists, focusing on the very different issues facing genealogists.

Content That Counts: How a University Library and a Public Library Digitized Local Content for the Web -  Power Point Version or HTML Version
The PowerPoint version of a presentation created in collaboration with Arne Arneson and Dave Timm of the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point at the Wisconsin Library Association's Fall 2001 conference.

Digitizing Local History on a Budget
The handout from my Talk Table presentation at Public Library Association Conference March 2002.  Adapted from a chapter in   Libraries, Community, and Technology.

Other titles of use.

Digitization in public libraries. The purpose of this Web site is to provide supplemental resources to those provided at the Public Library Association's Spring Symposium 2001, held March 1-3, in Chicago.

Copyright essentials for librarians and educators / Kenneth D. Crews . American Library Association, c2000.

The copyright handbook: how to protect & use written works /Stephen Fishman. 5th edition. Nolo Press, c2000.

The public domain: how to find copyright free writing, music art & more / Stephen Fishman. Nolo.com, 2001.

Public libraries with digital local history collections.

Kansas City Public Library uses a database to provide access to its collection of 14,000 photographs.

McMillan Memorial Library (Wisconsin Rapids).

PLA Spring Symposium list of projects.

UW - Stevens Point / Portage County Library have cooperatively developed and loaded several local indexes.