Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

AV collections in libraries are disintegrating, and their playback equipment is soon to be obsolete. Digitizing can be the solution to decay and for continued access.

• Offers easy-to-understand guidance on how to use digitizing to enable your library to recoup its investment in outdated but often-expensive AV collections

• Discusses use of off-the-shelf and shareware technology

• Covers creation of metadata for discovery layer access

• Shows how digitized materials can be made available over the Internet, making them much more accessible than the physical versions

• Presents information to create a path for future projects and for storage of output information

• Shares knowledge that is transferable to media other than those discussed in the book