Digitizing Your Community's History: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Follow the blueprint in this book to launch a library DIY community history digitization program―one that provides the access and fosters engagement with patrons to sustain the program over time.

• Takes readers through establishing local history digitization projects at the community level from start to finish, providing guidance on how to set up, maintain, and sustain ongoing digitization projects

• Describes how to train library users for digitization―instructions that are also applicable for including volunteers in digitization projects

• Explains how creating a DIY history digitization project can provide a community benefit and serve as a form of outreach that also enriches a library's local history collection