• Discuss status of digitization projects going on at YUL
• Explore among selectors new possibilities for digitization and creating other digital resources
• Establish guidelines and guidance for developing digital collections and projects, including possibly developing Best Practices for selection of
  materials for digitization and digital projects.

The Task Force will develop some sort of resource or event (to be decided within the group) that will provide information for selectors, and may offer suggestions for future ways to support the Library's digital projects.

Recommendations from the Task Force

1. Yale University Library needs a strategic plan and/or overarching policy for how and why we create digital collections. CDC should participate in creating such a plan with other library groups.
2. CDC should endorse the formation of a Developer's Forum, which is currently being formed by the Integrated Access Council. This group would enable further communication on a technical level among librarians at Yale. CDC should recommend that a liason to CDC be on the Developer's Forum.
3. Selectors who are developing digitization projects or grant proposals should create a formal proposal and discuss it at the Developer's Forum or with those who are doing similar projects in order to get feedback or advice. Information about current projects and contact people can be found in the Digital Collection Summary document
4. .Selectors need best practices guides to digitize materials and to create metadata for digital collections. Other groups should be formed to create these practices or adapt from other libraries' practices.
5. The Task Force saw a need for better communication with the development office in regards to more fundraising or grant writing for digital collections.

Documents

Criteria for Selection for Digitization

Summary of Digital Collections (pdf)

Minutes

2004
January 23, 2004 (Divinity)
January 29 (Beinecke)
February 6
February 20 (ELI)
February 27 (Medical Library)
March 19 (Walpole)
April 8 (Shoah)

Membership

Katie Bauer
Emily Horning
Sandy Peterson
Karen Reardon
Cesar Rodriguez
Jae Rossman
David Walls
Jen Weintraub (Chair)

Posted: 7/23/04

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