Digitizing Flat Media

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.

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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