Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization

Selecting Research Collections for Digitization: Applying the Harvard Model

ONEOF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHALLENGES facing digital library planners is the selection of research collections for digitization. The costs associated with creating digital resources are significant. Planners must develop selection criteria and procedures in order to ensure that limited time and resources are committed to projects to digitize the most significant collections with the highest proba...

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Preparing for the new world of self-pay collections.

have made great strides toward designing sophisticated and patient-friendly collections programs. Driven by a call to increase transparency, improve the patient experience, and minimize IRS scrutiny over community benefits, hospitals now offer everything from easy-to-understand patient statements to front-end help with Medicaid eligibility and charity assistance programs. They use state-of-the-...

Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections.

The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. To facilitate these studies and improve access to collections, many organisations are embarking on major programmes of digitization. This requires automated approaches to mass-digitization that support rapid imaging of specimens and associated data capture, in order to proc...

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