Webliography

Scanning and digitization resources from the Librarians's Index to the Internet http://lii.org/

A Few Scanning Tips - http://www.scantips.com/ *Best

Hints, fundamentals and other general scanning information to help beginners get started with their flatbed scanners.

Digital Eyes - http://www.image-acquire.com/

A helpful resource for comparing and evaluating digital cameras and scanners, this site provides "news and reviews of scanners, digital cameras, and the software that drives them." Statistics and specifications for many specific products are listed at this site, as well as links to reviews in other resources, and vendors.

Guide to Scanners (Caere) - http://www.caere.com/scanners/

Lots of information for the first time buyer. Describes how scanners work, the different types available, what to look for in specifications (resolution, bit-depth, scanning speed, etc.), components, software requirements, and installation. Also provides a list of recent books and articles (some full-text) on buying and using a scanner, as well as links to scanner-related Web sites, newsgroups, and forums. The extensive glossary of scanning terms is thorough and the Cool Things to do with a Scanner section has some neat ideas.

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access - http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm

"This handbook is the product of four years of developing and revising curricula for School for Scanning conferences presented throughout the U.S. by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). The handbook provides a cumulation of tips, guidance, and advice from institutions that have engaged in digital projects. Taken in its entirety, it brings together information on best practices and summarizes lessons learned from many experiences. The approach, while managerial, is also practical and based on actual projects." Published December 2000, it is 183 pages and in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Short Courses in Digital Photography - http://www.shortcourses.com/

A guide with how-to sections on the use of digital cameras, including an explanation of what digital photography is all about. Learn what makes a digital camera; compare different types and features; use a table comparing traditional cameras with digital ones; how to digitize or scan existing photographs; computer storage; various forms of graphic file formats; what is needed for the digital "darkroom"; photo-editing software; printers; printing on the Web; and much more. Additionally, there is a discussion forum and an online course for this new and developing form of photography.

Strategies for Building Digitized Collections - http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub101/contents.html

Policies, guidelines, best practices, and other recommendations for building digitized collections, based on the author's synthesis of "the nearly 10 years' experience that libraries have had digitizing items from their rare, special, and general collections, and making them available online." From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

Resources from Yahoo search on scanning

Flatbed-Scanner-Review.org  - reviews of scanners and scanning software for the desktop publishing, in-house publishing, graphics design, and prepress professtionals. http://www.flatbed-scanner-review.org/

Real World Scanning and Halftones  - tips, links, and related sources on scanning, as well as excerpts from the book. http://www.rwsh.com/

Betty's Travel Kiosk: Digitizing Slides  - includes information on scanning 35 mm slides using a standard flatbed scanner and a fluorescent flashlight. http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html

Scanning Experiments  - Don Maxwell offers information about scanning 35 mm slides and 3-D objects, creating stereoscopic images, and more, all with a standard flatbed scanner. http://www.AbstractConcreteWorks.com/essays/scanning/scanning.html

Miscellaneous resources

Digitization 101 The place for staying up-to-date on issues, topics, and lessons learned surrounding the creation, management, marketing and preservation of digital assets - http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. VI Technical Primer, by Steven Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vi.htm [Handout]

Introduction to Scanning & Digital Imaging, Richard J. Urban, Colorado Digitization Program. A powerpoint presentation in pdf format with a very good explanation of pixels - http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/scanning/documents/wrk_scanning_ppt.pdf

Library Digitization Projects and Copyright, by Mary Minow, J.D., A.M.L.S. - http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm

Smithsonian Institution Archives - http://www.si.edu/archives/erec/dig_stds_images.htm