Digitizing Flat Media Principles and Practices

People can be lured into thinking that all it takes to digitize something is a scanner and some metadata. This guide illustrates the practical aspects of digitization such as:

•the physical challenges of scanning books without cutting the spine,

•the differences between a “scanner” that uses a scanning head vs a “scanner” that uses a camera,

•the different options for workflow for digitized items, and

•the reasons for choosing one scanner over another for reasons other than price.

Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices is intended to give librarians and archivists the benefit a seasoned digitization professional guiding them and helping them figure out exactly what needs to be done when.