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Description of  Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

1440837805 epub AV collections in libraries are disintegrating, and their playback equipment is soon to be obsolete. Digitizing can be the solution to decay and for continued access. * Offers easy-to-understand guidance on how to use digitizing to enable your library to recoup its investment in outdated but often-expensive AV collections * Discusses use of off-the-shelf and shareware technology * Covers creation of metadata for discovery layer access * Shows how digitized materials can be made available over the Internet, making them much more accessible than the physical versions * Presents information to create a path for future projects and for storage of output information * Shares knowledge that is transferable to media other than those discussed in the book