CommUNITY DIGITIZATION PROJECTS 

Training Resources

• Becky Geller et al. How to Host a Community Scanning Day (DLG/HomePLACE webinar)

• PLPP Introduction to Digital Skills

• Basic Digitization Training Guide

  • Overview

  • Rights

    • Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

  • Metadata

    • Sample Web Form for Day of Metadata Capture

    • Full Metadata Template

    • DLG Metadata Guidelines

  • Imaging and Storage

• DLG Digitization Training Handouts

  • Preparing for a Scanning Project

  • Setting up a Scanning Workstation

  • Care and Handling of Materials for Digitization

  • Image Capture using a Flatbed Scanner

  • Using Scanning Software to Name Files

  • Scanning Walk-through

Legal Forms

• Permission to Publish Online Form (includes language related to scanning of brittle items)

• Permission to Digitize (no donation, no web delivery)

Scan-Day Resources

• Culture in Transit Toolkit (Metropolitan New York Library Council)

• DLG Digitization Guide

• RoPA: Roadmap for Participatory Archiving

• Sign up for Scan Day Kit (for Public Libraries only)

• DLG Storage

  • GALILEO members may receive a one-time allotment of either 30GB archival storage plus the accompanying production space or 50 GB of production storage only for no charge. Whereas, non-GALILEO members may receive a one-time allotment of either 20 GB archival storage storage plus the accompanying production space or 35 GB of production storage only for no charge. Additional storage is available with cost recovery fees.