Creating Customized Online Collections on a Shoestring outlines how libraries can digitize special collections and create online archives even with limited budgets. The presentation discusses off-site storage options, book scanning, digitizing fragile materials, leveraging public domain works, ensuring long-term digital preservation, building collections at the title level, and sharing content through APIs and partnerships to allow for customized collections across institutions. The talk encourages librarians to embrace their inner curator and provide new ways for patrons to browse, search, embed, and view digitized collections.