[PADG:1121] Digitization Activities Affecting Preservation Operations

["Robert J. Milevski" <milevski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

If these questions have been asked and answered, please point me to the 
archives of this list.

I want to know how digitization activities, when they become part of or are 
closely allied with a Library's preservation operations, have affected 
those operations.  I'm not much interested in the funding aspect as in the 
staffing one.

If digitization units are now part of your operations, did you gain new 
staff or were positions cannibalized from other preservation units?  Are 
staff cross-trained to do digitization and other traditional preservation 
activities?

Has the flow of material for digitization also passed through the hands of 
other preservation staff, either before or after digitization?

I am particularly interested in the impact digitization may be having on 
special and general collections conservation staff.  Are they called to 
repair material after  digitization?  Are they asked to chop the backs off 
books so that they can be more easily scanned?

What happens to the books that may be getting chopped?  Is anyone 
microfilming them as well?  Or photocopying them?  Or sending them out for 
rebinding?

I am seeking information about this for strategic planning purposes.  Thank 
you.

Robert
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Robert J. Milevski
Preservation Librarian
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-5591
Fax:  (609) 258-4105
Email:  milevski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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