Cokie Anderson & David Maxwell 
Starting a Digitization Center [PDF ebook] 

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing, finding partners/collaborators, locating training and online resources, obtaining funding, setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online. — Stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners and working with others- Serves as a practical handbook and it acts as a manual, and guides readers to finding more advanced resources- Focuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget