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Moving
Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
Cornell University
Library, 2002-2003
This tutorial
offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert
and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some
concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value
of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative.
You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality
checks, designed to test your level of understanding.
Copyright Town Meetings
& Reports
NINCH, 1997-2003
Since 1997, NINCH has organized Copyright Town Meetings across the nation,
bringing the basic facts about copyright law and recent copyright issues
to wide audiences in the educational and cultural communities. These not
only educate but also provide a forum for sharing copyright concerns with
assembled experts.
Document Management and Document Imaging
Steve Gilheany, Archives
Builders
These materials are used by Gilheany for his on-site course but are made
freely available online. Document Management and Document Imaging is for
managers who have been assigned to manage a document imaging system, and
must start immediately, but can spend three days to study the subject
and its background. This course is designed to assist managers to be more
effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document
imaging and document management to their organizations and to their organizations'
clients, customers, and constituents. Students will gain an understanding
of how document imaging can be used and managed in both small and large-scale
organizations. Document imaging is the process of taking documents out
of file cabinets, and off shelves, and storing them in a computer. This
course provides an understanding of the details that there is often no
time to review in the rush to implement a system. The course content is
intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty
years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to
preserve digital documents forever.
Preservation 101: an
Internet Course on Paper Preservation
Northeast Document Conservation
Center
An orientation to the importance of caring for library and archival
materials
