The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Digitization and Automation

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General Resources
Digital Reformatting
Software & Databases
Publications

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GENERAL RESOURCES

Automation

New Partnerships for Old Sibling Rivals: The Development of Integrated Access Systems for the Holdings of Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Believing InMagic: How RAD and Automation Have Changed the Glenbow Archives

Digitization

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation & Access

Introduction to Imaging

Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs

Chip Monks at the Gate: The Impact of Technology on Archives, Libraries and the User

Scanning Fundamentals for Archivists

Digitizing Family Papers and Photographs US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

DIGITAL REFORMATTING

CLIR Reports (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009)

Sample reports:
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper Oya Y. Rieger. February 2008. Pub 141
Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation Gregory W. Lawrence, William R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Rieger, William H. Walters, and Anne R. Kenney. June 2000. Pub 93
Authenticity in a Digital Environment. May 2000. Pub 92
Why Digitize? / Abby Smith. February 1999. Pub 80

Digital Output: Inkjet & Laser Printers (or Life and Death in the Digital World) Rosaleen Hill (Delivered at the 2008 AABC Annual Conference)

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (National Information Standards Organization, 2007)

Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get into the Flow Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, 2007)

Digitization and Archives / CCA Preservation Committee (Canadian Council of Archives, 2002)

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access / Maxine K. Sitts (ed) (Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000)

Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet Stephen E. Ostrow (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)

Selecting Research Collections for Digitalization Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell and Jan Merrill-Oldham (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)

DATABASE SOFTWARE

AtoM (Access to Memory)

ArchivesSpace

CollectiveAccess

Omeka

Lucidea / DB Text Works and Web Publisher (Inmagic, Inc.)

PUBLICATIONS

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"The Effect of the Web on Archives" / Sylvain Senécal (Archivaria 59, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005)

Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager (FACET, the imprint of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2004)

Enhancement of Document Legibility Using Spectroscopic Imaging / E. Michael Attas (Archivaria 57, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2004)

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives / Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, Research Libraries Group, 2000)