[PADG:1207] Re: Queuing digital collections

[schubert <isch@xxxxxxx>]

Joan,

I realize in my rush that I did not answer the question about digital
collections.  To my knowledge, there is no one place which lists queued
projects but there are two sites which serve as registries of what appear
to be completed projects:  

DLF:  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/d/dlfcoll/dlfcoll-idx

IFLA has a item "Resources and Projects under "Digital Libraries" -
http://www.ifla.org/II/index.htm  which I have used to look for digitized
items.  The link is broken right now, but presumably will be fixed.

Irene

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Joan Gatewood wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear Folks: I am working on a digital project that intends to digitize 1000 
> monographs.  In discussing this project with Cataloging, I was asked if 
> there were other ways to let the preservation community know of our 
> intentions to digitize this material instead of title by title queuing.  At 
> my library all cataloging is done on the local system and upload to the 
> utilities as a single step.  Queuing (RLIN) or Prospective Cataloging 
> (OCLC) requires two separate steps - one at the beginning and one at the 
> end of the project.  This is costly and labor intense.  Has anyone come up 
> with a less complicated system?   Is there a single web site being used to 
> announce intentions to digitize a collection?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Joan Gatewood
> University of Michigan Library
> Preservation Division
> joangate@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 

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