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Digitizing Your Digitizing Audiovisual Rare Book
Community’s History and Nonprint Materials Librarianship

The Innovative The Innovative An Introduction and Guide
Librarian’s Guide Librarian’s Guide STEVEN K. GALBRAITH AND
GEOFFREY D. SMITH
ALEX HOFFMAN SCOTT PIEPENBURG
FOREWORD BY JOEL B. SILVER

May 2016, 140pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 September 2015, 94pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-4240-5 Print: 978-1-4408-3780-7 June 2012, 185pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00 $50.00, £39.00, €46.00 Print: 978-1-59158-881-8
eBook: 978-1-4408-4241-2 eBook: 978-1-4408-3781-4 $55.00, £43.00, €50.00
eBook: 978-1-59158-882-5

Packed with information and
“ a wise investment for libraries “ librarians of any caliber will find “ recommended for any rare
This handbook is
A valuable tool . . . this book is
looking to preserve the past for it easy to follow Piepenburg’s book and special collections
future generations. ” instructions to begin a librarian, teachers, and students
digitization project of their own.
—VOYA, December 6, 2016 . . . Librarians and archivists will in library science, or anyone
charged with the care of rare
enjoy reading this fast-paced
Follow the blueprint in this book to book and most likely learn a books. ”
launch a library DIY community history thing or two in the process. —College & Research Libraries,
digitization program—one that provides ” September 1, 2013
the access and fosters engagement with —Library Resources and Technical
patrons to sustain the program over Services, October 11, 2016 Successfully managing rare book
time. AV collections in libraries are collections requires very specific
knowledge and skills. This handbook
disintegrating, and their playback
FEATURES provides that essential information in a
equipment is soon to be obsolete.
• Takes readers through establishing single volume.
local history digitization projects at Digitizing can be the solution to decay
the community level from start to and for continued access. FEATURES
finish, providing guidance on how to FEATURES • Covers the history of rare books
set up, maintain, and sustain ongoing librarianship
digitization projects • Offers easy-to-understand guidance • Provides instructions on handling and
• Describes how to train library users on how to use digitizing to enable preserving rare books and techniques
your library to recoup its investment
for digitization—instructions that in outdated but often-expensive AV for limiting problems such as theft
are also applicable for including collections and damage to the collection
volunteers in digitization projects • Presents information on growing
• Discusses use of off-the-shelf and
• Explains how creating a DIY history shareware technology the collection and working with
digitization project can provide a booksellers, donors, and auction
community benefit and serve as a • Covers creation of metadata for houses
form of outreach that also enriches a discovery layer access
library’s local history collection

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