Community history and local stories are today’s go-to resources for students, genealogists and historians, and libraries are often the stewards of these physical collections, but the idea of making them digitally accessible can be daunting.

Whether you’re looking at shoeboxes of photos, reams of town records, old cassettes of oral histories, or local newspapers on microfilm, every collection is unique, using project management techniques can take a digitization project from start to a successful finish and minimize the bumps along the way. But where do we begin? How do we ensure success?

This session will tips, tools and techniques to plan, monitor and accomplish large and small projects, particularly within libraries and archives. The session will instill participants at all levels with the confidence to lead their teams through practical steps to achieve their organizational objectives for digitization and create accessible, enduring collections for online discovery. 

Take aways:

•    Important general project management principles

•    Digitization basics and best practices

•    Goals for the display and discovery of digital collections