Scanning and Digitizing

This guide is to provide useful library resources for scanning and digitizing your materials (textual, photograph, maps, and plain sheets)  for preservation, outreach, publication and further analysis for text-mining and digital mapping. 

• Scanning Resources: Find out types of scanners, the best use for, and their accessibility in Fenwick Library
• Digitizing Resources: Find out resources that are useful for digitizing
• Get Help: Contact an appropriate person if you need assistance in using these resources.

The following resources are useful before you start to scan and digitize your materials.

• Preservation Guidelines for Digitizing Library Materials: A guideline to address questions before scanning and digitizing.
• Personal Digital Archiving: The Basics of Scanning: Brief basic information for scanning and other related information. 
• NARA's Technical Guidelines for Digitizing: A comprehensive guideline for digitizing archive materials for electronic access. 
• Life Cycle of Digitizing: Digitizing standard and guidelines including organizing file names (via UC Santa Cruz)
• Historical and Archival Care Grants: Useful information about the format to archive (via Pennsylvania State)
• Online Digital Reference: Useful reference sources for digitization (via World Digital Library)