OCLC Research, US, is to host a webinar titled 'Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives' on September 22, 2011 at 2 pm EDT. The webinar will discuss streamlined methods for scanning and delivering digital copies of special collections materials at the request of users.
Changes in technology and the increased visibility of special collections have resulted in a deluge of requests for digital copies of special collections materials. A steady stream of digitisation requests for one item here, two pages there can reportedly be labour-intensive, and policies for user requests vary widely across institutions. The webinar expects to address these issues.
OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership's Working Group on Streamlining Photography and Scanning have been seeking methods for reducing cumbersome digitisation-on-demand workflows and policy obstacles. The Scan and Deliver report concludes that a flexible, tiered approach to delivering digitised copies acknowledges differences in user needs, collections, institutional policies and resources. The webinar will feature creative experiments aimed at scanning and delivering user-requested digital copies of special collections materials.
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