Digitized photo collections

[debra shapiro]

Dear Walter:

At the risk of sounding terribly redundant, what about LC's American Memory
as an example of a good, collaborative, digitizing project? They are
currently collaborating (via a grant competition and funding from
Ameritech) with universities and historical societies around the country,
some of whom are smaller organizations. There are several "best practices"
documents available at:

Formats
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html
Selection; what is a digital collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/elements.html
Fidning aids
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/interop.html

There is also a list (it is called a Clearinghouse of Image Databases) of
digitizing projects compiled by a librarian at University of Arizona,
Stuart Glogoff, beginning in 1994, that includes some public library
projects.

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/image_projects.html

You can browse the archives of the IMAGELIB listserv via a link at the same
URL; I took a quick look at July 1998 and did not see reference to public
library projects, but that is only one month.

If you are looking for good examples, one of my current favorites, probably
because it is clearly a photograph album in digitized form (I have come to
believe that I am just very old-fashioned) is:

University of Washington: A Pictorial History
http://www.washington.edu/home/historical/

Not a public library (Universory Special Collections Department), but a
nice, small photograph digitizing project done in part by librarians.

regards,
Debra.

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>Topic No. 1
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>Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Walter Minkel <walterm at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: Digitized photo collections
>Message-ID:
><Pine.SOL.4.02.9808011051260.23661-100000 at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
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>Multnomah County Library is investigating purchasing equipment and
>developing a policy for digitizing historical photos and illustrations
>from our rare books collection. Other than the digital collections on the
>Berkeley Sunsite at <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/>, can anyone
>point me to the best digital photo & illustration sites, _particularly_
>those assembled by public libraries and public libraries working in
>partnerships with other organizations? Are there any "best practices"
>sites or pages for digitized photo collections anyone can recommend?
>Thanks! --W
>
>Walter Minkel, School Corps Technology Trainer
>Multnomah County Library, 205 NE Russell St., Portland, OR 97212
>Voice (503)736-6002; fax (503)248-5441; walterm at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us
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Debra Shapiro
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