Managing Digital Imaging Projects: A New RLG Workshop

["Robin Dale" <BL.RLD@xxxxxxx>]

Managing Digital Imaging Projects: a New RLG Workshop

RLG is pleased to offer a new 2.5 day workshop designed to assist
librarians, archivists, curators, and preservation administrators,
in managing digital imaging projects.  Through lectures,
demonstrations, and group exercises, participants will learn to:

=> set realistic goals and objectives
=> benchmark imaging and indexing requirements
=> determine necessary technical infrastructure to support imaging
   and access (hardware, software, network, communication protocols)
=> prepare budgets (including the use of the RLG Worksheet for
   Budgeting Digital Reformatting Projects)
=> identify facilities, space, and staffing needs
=> develop an RFI & RFP from models provided, select vendor(s),
   prepare a contract for services, and develop on-going
   relationships
=> monitor project activities and schedule
=> establish a quality control program
=> collaborate with others to provide access to and maintenance of
   digital collections.

The curriculum was developed for RLG through a contract with Cornell
University's Department of Preservation and Conservation.  Taught by
Anne Kenney, Associate Director of the Department of Preservation
and Conservation, Cornell University and Oya Rieger, Digital
Projects Librarian, Cornell University, the workshop will be offered
five times over the next year.  The first workshop is scheduled for
October 27-29, 1997 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
DC.  The remaining workshops are tentatively scheduled as follows:
early February 1998 (Chicago, IL); two to be held in late May/early
June, 1998 (UK); and the final one of the year in late Summer/early
Fall, 1998 (California).

How to Register:

Enrollment for each workshop is limited to 35 participants.
Registration for the workshops is on a first-come, first-served
basis, with RLG members having priority over non-members.

The prepaid registration fee for the workshop is $250 for RLG
members and $350 for non-members.  The cost includes the course
workbook, continental breakfast each morning, as well as lunch on
days one and two.  Additionally, workshop participants may purchase
a copy of Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives by Anne R.
Kenney and Stephen Chapman (Cornell University Library, 1996) for
the reduced rate of $50.  (Though not required for the workshop,
this notebook is a valuable source of information and is recommended
reading for the course.) Transportation and hotel accommodations
will be the responsibility of participants (email with hotel
reservation information will be sent to those whose applications
have been accepted).

At this time, we are accepting registration for the October
(Washington, DC) workshop, only.  To apply, please fill out the
the Web-based form available at:  www.rlg.org/preserv.  Notification
of acceptance for the October workshop will be made by September 8,
1997.

If you are interested in any of the other regionally-located
workshops, please notify Fran Devlin, RLG Member Services
(BL.FED@xxxxxxx or 650-691-2239) to express interest.  When the
exact location and dates are firm, we will notify those who have
expressed interest.

If you have questions about the workshops or the registration
process, please contact either Fran Devlin or Robin Dale
(BL.RLD@xxxxxxx, 650-691-2238).


To:  PADG@xxxxxxx