DIGITIZING IN A MATERIAL WORLD
A symposium on Planning, Preserving and Accessing
a variety of materials in a digital collection.

October 18, 2007
10AM - 4:30PM
Santa Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90401

REGISTRATION FORM (Priority will be given to Califa and Sponsoring Agency members; seating limited to first 100 registrants.)

Sponsored by:
Califa Library Group
California Community College Library Consortium (CCCLC)
California Digital Library (CDL)
Metropolitan Cooperative Library System
Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)
Statewide Electronic Information Resources (SEIR)

Lunch is hosted by Northern Micrographics, Inc.

This symposium will help library and special collections staff to plan, create and provide access to a variety of materials in a digital collection. As Internet users begin to take digital access for granted; archivists, librarians and collection managers must deal with the problem that not all information "assets" have the same characteristics. For example, a photograph and a newspaper have different digitization and access requirements. Additionally, libraries and archivists must also deal with electronically published materials such as websites and government documents that never see "hard copy".

Experts from a variety of digitization projects will address these topics:
    Material Concerns - Capture, Format and Search:
  • Issues in Digitizing Newspapers
  • Text documents and manuscripts
  • Pictorial documents and objects
    Digital Repository :
  • What is a Digital Repository?
  • Create and manage a digital repository - to work collaboratively or independently?
    Digital Resources:
  • How can I fund my digitization project?
  • How do I compare the management capability of integrated library systems (example: Innovative Interfaces, Inc.) with digital collection systems (example: ContentDM)?
  • Can I or do I want to sell my images?
  • Who's doing what in California? How can they help me?

    Sample comments from participants of the first Symposium on April 19, 2007:
  • A great symposium, that sent me back with a great deal of useful, on target information.
  • Well organized, a great deal of very useful information in one day... one of the best workshops/symposiums I've been to in a long time. wow, lots of great things going on!
  • I am from an academic library that does not archive many images. This workshop opened? my mind to many new possibilities. I really now understand and have answers for some of my many questions and appreciated the discussions on text and image size.
  • Every presentation had some jewels of info embedded that met my needs. The variety of perspectives was excellent. I appreciated learning about file format standards and work flows. Excellent job!
  • Seeing and hearing the struggles and accomplishments of institutions grappling with digitizing issues was beneficial.
  • I learned a lot. Thanks.
Register for this workshop online.

Symposium agenda now available via downloadable Word document.

The price of the workshop is $75 for Califa, CDL, SCELC, SEIR, and Community College Consortium members; and $100 for non-members. A limited number of student internships are available.

For questions or additional information please contact:

Trudy Levy - tlevy@califa.org

*Note: Speakers and topics subject to change

The Digitization Symposium is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) administered in California by the State Librarian.

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