Going Digital
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Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format offers you succinct and analytic views of the problems and benefits of digital resources in the traditional academic library. Library administrators, collection managers, and librarians will learn the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and digital collections and the costs of providing local access or implementing remote access to digital collections. Originally presented at a series of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group, the articles inGoing Digital will help you decide upon a cost-effective collection method that will meet the needs of your library, your patrons, and your budget.The chapters in this text are written by the nations leading librarians who pose and answer questions about hardware and software needed for digital libraries, the costs involved, establishing and maintaining access to digital collections, copyright concerns, and long-term preservation problems. Going Digital gives you insight into factors that will help you decide what will best meet the goals of your library, such as:the advantages and disadvantages of preserving microfilm and digital conversionchoosing the correct hardware and software for your digital preservation programthe changes required from librarians when shifting from collection development to digital resourcesexamining the selection process for collections from perspectives of access, public service, technological requirements, and preservationways to improve access to traditional collectionscost comparisons between digital and hard copy resourcesdevising a technical plan for successful digital conversion of projectsinvolving the users wants when selecting collections for digital conversion and recognizing the central parts patrons play in the selection processIn light of the changing ways we receive and keep our information, Going Digital discusses new collection preservation criteria
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