Day 1 [April 27] - What’s the difference between digitization and digital preservation?

• Building Digital Collections
• Digital Preservation Planning
• Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit
• Digital Preservation Handbook “Getting Started” section (Digital Preservation Coalition): https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/getting-started
• Introduction to Digital Preservation (Sustainable Heritage Network): https://sustainableheritagenetwork.org/collection/introduction-digital-preservation

Day 2 [April 28] - Why are you digitizing, and how will you use the files?

• From Paper to Pixels: Planning a Successful Digitization Project
• Digitization Purpose Statement Worksheet (Sustainable Heritage Network): https://sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/strategic-digitization-goals-part-1-digitization-purpose-statement-worksheet-0
• Preservation and Selection for Digitization (NEDCC): https://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-leaflets/6.-reformatting/6.6-preservation-and-selection-for-digitization
• Digitization Activities - Project Planning and Management Outline (FADGI): https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-planning.html
• Information or Artifact: Digitizing a Book, Part 1 (LOC): https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/10/information-or-artifact-digitizing-a-book-part-1/ and Part 2: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/10/information-or-artifact-digitizing-a-book-part-2/
• Information or Artifact: Digitizing Photographic Negatives and Transparencies, Part 1 (LOC): https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/10/information-or-artifact-digitizing-photographic-negatives-and-transparencies-part-1/ and Part 2: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/10/information-or-artifact-digitizing-photographic-negatives-and-transparencies-part-2/

Day 3 [April 29] - What equipment and settings do you need for digitization?

• Digital Imaging for the Small Organization (Minnesota Historical Society): https://www.mnhs.org/sites/default/files/preservation/grants/guidelines_digital_for_small_organizations.pdf