[PADG:2182] On-line Digitization Course offering

[Amy Maroso <maroso@xxxxxxxx>]

?Basics and Beyond? Digitization Fundamentals On-line Course
 
The Illinois Digitization Institute at the University of Illinois Library
at Urbana-Champaign, through a National Leadership Grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, is offering a 3-week web-based
course entitled Digitization Fundamentals.  Course participants will
engage in on-line discussions, solve real world digitization problems,
and be able to apply the knowledge learned to their own digitization
projects.  The course will be directed towards participants from
libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions who are seeking
in-depth digitization instruction to work with cultural heritage
materials.  Discussions and assignments will focus on the following
topics: 
Benefits and costs of digitization projects 
Issues involved with designing and evaluating digitization projects,
and goal-setting 
Selection of materials for digitization 
Determining the best way to digitize a collection and make it
accessible to the target audience 
Planning issues including: budgeting, workflow, copyright, storage,
and preservation 
Metadata: best practices and creation 
Evaluating, selecting, and purchasing digitization equipment 
Basic scanning and image manipulation 
Delivery and access of digital images 
The course will also include guest experts in the areas of
digitization and preservation from libraries, museums, and 
archives.
 
Upcoming courses will be held:
January 12-30, 2004 
February 2-20, 2004 
February 23-March 12, 2004 
April 12-30, 2004 
August 2-20, 2004 
More courses will be offered later in 2004 and in 2005. 
Cost for one 3-week course is $200.00 per person.  Illinois
cultural heritage associations may be able to qualify for a scholarship
to cover the cost of the course.
 
To learn more about the ?Basics and Beyond? digitization course series
and available scholarships, please visit
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/project/IDI
or contact:
 
Amy Maroso, Project Coordinator
452 Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
1301 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone:  (217) 244-4946
Fax: (217) 244-7764
E-mail:  maroso@xxxxxxxx