When: Sept 30 – Nov 24, 2024 (8 weeks)
Where: Online & Asynchronous (see more info)
Cost: $360 (Register 2 weeks early for 10% off)
CE Credit: 2.6 CEUs/26 LEUs
Program#: 313725
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Are you passionate about preserving your community’s rich history? Are you eager to digitize and share valuable digital artifacts with a wider audience? Join us for “Introduction to Digitization Projects,” an 8-week course designed for anyone embarking on digitization endeavors within libraries, archives, or community groups.
In this comprehensive course, participants will delve into the fundamentals of digitization, learning essential skills and best practices to successfully undertake and manage digitization projects. From planning and equipment selection to metadata creation and copyright considerations, this course covers all aspects of the digitization process. Participants will gain practical knowledge and confidence in digitization techniques and technologies. Whether you’re digitizing old photographs, documents, or audiovisual materials, you’ll learn how to preserve these valuable artifacts for future generations while making them accessible to a wider audience.
By the end of the course, participants will have the skills and knowledge to:
– Plan and execute a digitization project effectively
– Select appropriate equipment and software for digitization tasks, including storage and access options
– Create high-quality digital images and metadata records
– Navigate copyright and intellectual property issues ethically
– Build user-friendly interfaces for accessing and promoting digitized collections
– Ensure the long-term sustainability and preservation of digital collections
No prior experience in digitization or archival work is required. Enthusiasm for learning about digitizing archival collections and a commitment to preserving them for future generations are all you need to bring to this course.
Audience:
Librarians, historians, archivists, community memory keepers, anyone who is interested in digitization projects.
Instructor
Kristen Whitson holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a Digital Specialist and Consortia Manager with WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) and works with local history organizations and Recollection Wisconsin content partners and provides digital projects and archives support to various WiLS initiatives. Kristen is particularly interested in communities of practice and peer-to-peer learning in the archives, and she enjoys making digitization and reformatting achievable for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Kristen is also the co-author of We Will Always Be Here: A Guide for Exploring and Understanding LGBTQ+ Activism in Wisconsin and works with several LGBTQ+ history organizations.