February Class Spotlight:
Digitization for Small Institutions
February 23, 2016 and February 24, 2106, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Participants will work with the instructor to answer a series of questions designed to help them start a digitization program. The class is based on a series of units: Getting Started; Digital Capture and Quality Control; Hardware, Software, Metadata, and Web Interface decisions; Practical Planning Decisions: In-house or Outsourced? Staffing and Budgeting; and Collaborative Digitization.
LYRASIS Free Webinar: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants
February 15, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Attend a session to talk about your project ideas, as well as to get advice on crafting your narrative and goals. We will also be talking about what is eligible for potential digital preservation projects – now included in the Preservation Assistance Grant as an option.
Digital and Preservation Classes
- Metadata for Digitization and Preservation (Multi-Session Event) – 2/3 and 2/4
- Fragile Imaging: Lantern Slides, Glass Plate Negatives and Daguerreotypes – 2/3
- Introduction to Digital Audio – 2/8
- Picture This: Introduction to Digital Imaging (Multi-Session Event) – 2/9 and 2/10
- Caring for Originals during Digitization Projects – 2/11
- Introduction to Audio Visual Digitization – 2/11
- Introduction to Dublin Core Metadata – 2/12
- Security in and with Collections in Libraries, Archives and Museums – 2/16
- Digital Stewardship Fundamentals – 2/18
- Digitization for Small Institutions (Multi-Session Event) – 2/23 and 2/24
- Managing Oversized Materials: Care, Handling and Preservation of Posters, Maps, and Other Large Pages in Our Collections – 2/25
Free Demos and Info Sessions
- LYRASIS Licensing and Partnerships Update (For LYRASIS Members) – 2/2
- LYRASIS Digitization Collaborative Information Session – 2/11
- LYRASIS Free Webinar: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants – 2/15
