Digitization Basics Workshop

The American Library Association is hosting the 90-minute online workshop What You Need to Know About Starting a Digitization Project on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 2:30pm Eastern/1:30pm Central/12:30pm Mountain/11:30am Pacific. Susanne Caro, former State Documents Librarian for New Mexico State Library, is the workshop instructor and will cover: Basic information and research needs; Collection selection; Where to find financial and human resources; Awareness of digital preservation needs; and The basics of copyright as it relates to digitization. This workshop could be of interest for literary magazines with print archives they’d like to consider digitizing to preserve and make avaiable to a new generation of readers.