1. A personal tour around library
image projects
Tony Pilmer
Chair, LSG South
2. Introduction
Images as engagement.
Harnessing the crowd.
Collecting today’s images.
Images for profit.
Digitising for preservation.
Top tips from image projects.
30. Top tips from library projects – IT
Corporate IT - Enthusiastic IT v unenthusiastic IT.
Digital storage.
Can volunteers use corporate networks and
computers?
Advantages using outside IT systems &
companies.
Free v paid for systems – or both?
Be very clear on an IT spec from the outset.
Test your product – watch users accessing your
project – it can be cheap to make tweaks which
make an amazing difference.
32. Top tips from library projects – IT
A good
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33. Top tips from library projects – IT
Use the
system
you have
34. Top tips from library projects – IT
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35. Top tips from library projects –
Copyright
Donation conditions?
Is it published?
Risk management.
36. Top tips from library projects –
Copyright
New rules on conservation digitisation.
I am a librarian/archivist/curator, what am I allowed to do now?
You can copy works for archiving and preservation reasons if they are part of a
permanent collection and it is not reasonably practicable to purchase a replacement.
What types of work can I copy for preservation?
You will now be able to preserve films, broadcasts, sound recordings and artistic works
(including photographs), as well as literary, dramatic and musical works.
How many copies can I make?
The work can be copied as many times as necessary for the work to be preserved.
Can I copy (for archiving / preservation purposes) any work held by the
library/archive/museum/gallery?
No. This exception will only apply to material held in the permanent collection of an
institution that is not available for loan to the public
From Intellectual Property Office, Exceptions to copyright: Libraries, archives and museums, 2014 p.4
37. Top tips from library projects –
Practicalities
Make sure that physical items are
put back properly.
Each item numbered on item and
catalogue record.
Each time a photo is scanned it
risks the stability of the chemicals
on the photograph – get it right first
time.
38. Top tips from library projects –
Volunteers
“Good - The luck of having an amazing volunteer”.
Monitor and enforce cataloguing guidelines and house
style. How much detail should be captured?
Subject terms – can use a few but not a thesaurus.
“I would also ensure that where volunteers are
organising exhibitions, they have a group leader to
coordinate delivery.”
Love your volunteers….. “volunteers – they were
brilliant. I think the team worked really well because
we involved them in all aspects of the project and
showed that we valued their feedback.”
Volunteers as ambassadors… “sense of ownership and
pride in the project.”
39. Top tips from library projects –
stakeholders
Our communications strategy – press, Facebook, Twitter, mail shots,
promotion via stakeholder meetings, websites and newsletters, sent
material to tourist attractions, churches, resident groups, schools and
supermarkets – they then did a lot of word of mouth publicity for us.
Working with stakeholders – we had support and consultation rather
than a formal partnership but they all said that the project had
brought them closer together and helped them to consider other ways
of working together. All the organisations involved said that they
would be happy to work with us again. We have now agreed to have
an annual Discovery Day as our project Days went so well.
The relationship we built with the schools also worked really well –
teachers appreciated that we asked them what they wanted, rather
than just giving them what we thought they wanted. We deliberately
avoided having lots of meetings, as they are already overloaded and
asked them in when we had draft materials available. We sought their
feedback at all stages and they could also see that we had acted on
their suggestions / recommendations – this meant that they got tailor
made resources that really matched their needs.
40. Conclusion
Be clear on what you want to
achieve with your project.
Don’t just focus on digitisation
projects.
IT challenges.
New digitisation for conservation
rules.