[Web4lib] mass digitization symposium

[Eric Lease Morgan]

I have written up a travel log describing my experiences at a recent  
mass digitization symposium called Scholarship and Libraries in  
Transition: A Dialog about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects  
sponsored by the good folks at the University of Michigan. From the  
text:

   In short, the symposium facilitated quite a number of
   presentations and panel discussions about mass digitization.
   Discussion topics ranged from mass digitization's impacts on
   libraries to possibilities for scholarship to changes in
   changes in publishing to economic effects to public policy
   issues. Most of the discussions were framed by the Google
   Print project, and just about everybody provided their point
   of view regarding the effect of Google on the academy...

   ...After the time of mass digitization a library's
   collection will not be as important as it is today.
   Everybody will be carrying the collection around in their
   pocket. Instead what people will need are sets of services
   -- tools -- to apply against the collections making the
   content more useful. In a digital environment the things of
   traditional librarianship (books) will give way to their
   content and this makes services increasingly important...

   http://infomotions.com/musings/mass-digitization/

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604