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Training Professionals to Preserve Digital Heritage: The School for Scanning

Russell, Ann

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Title
Training Professionals to Preserve Digital Heritage: The School for Scanning
Author(s)
Russell, Ann
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
  • Digitization
  • Preservation
Date of Ingest
2008-03-14T17:17:20Z
Abstract
From 1995 to 2005, the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) presented its School for Scanning conference eleven times in cities across the United States, serving a total of nearly four thousand professionals. The program addressed a seemingly insatiable need for training on building, managing, and preserving digital collections. Because the conference was presented by an organization whose mission is preservation, the emphasis was on standards, quality, and assuring long-term access to digital collections. Since 1995 the content of the conference has evolved as institutional digitization programs have matured and as standards and best practices have developed. The succession of conference agendas provides a series of snapshots of the effort that has gone into bringing digital programs into being. This article, originally written as a paper for the 2006 Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations [IFLA] in Seoul, Korea, looks at how the needs of the audience changed over the decade. It evaluates the factors that have contributed to the school’s ongoing success and at current challenges to this continuing education program as the experience level of professions in the field advances rapidly.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Article
Language
en
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage PRIMARY
Library Trends 56 (1) Summer 2007: Preserving Cultural Heritage. Edited by Michèle V. Cloonan and Ross Harvey.