The document summarizes key points about supply and demand for special collections and digitization. It discusses the need to select collections for digitization to increase access, build sustainable long-term infrastructure for ongoing digitization programs, and encourage the development of format-specific digitization equipment. It also emphasizes the importance of learning from users, combining approaches, and sharing findings to support discovery and reuse of collections.

1. Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation Ricky Erway, RLG Program Officer OCLC Programs and Research JISC CNI Meeting Transforming the User Experience Belfast, Northern Ireland July 10, 2008

2. My Checkered Past

3. “ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin Image: Auckland Museum

5. Yale University

6. Image: from the end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

7. Marsh’s Library, Dublin

8. Princeton University Archives

9. Digitization Matters Symposium

11. Yale University Archives vault Digitize for access

12. Selection has already been done Woodcut from Sebastian Brant, “ Stultifera…” The ship of fooles… 1570 At University of Edinburgh Library

13. Don’t get further behind Trinity College Dublin

14. University of Aberdeen Stop thinking about item-level description

16. Quantity over quality Images: labs.live.com/photosynth/

17. Image: Library of Congress Build permanent infrastructure

19. “ At this stage, no new effort should be undertaken without a sense of how it will be merged with other existing collections and where the resources for long-term maintenance will come from.” --Cornell University digital projects librarian Ongoing programs, not projects

20. Funding for sustainable workflow at scale

21. Scribe book scanner Encourage development of format-specific gear

22. University of Glasgow Learn from your users Linen Hall Library, Belfast

24. Be where the users are Image: informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-2008-beta/

25. Image: Charles Tilford (flickr)

26. Images: Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin

28. Combine approaches

29. Process not projects

31. Do it all Images: A View to Hugh (blog)

32. Share your findings Images: A View to Hugh (blog)

33. Images: various

34. The Stokes Imaging System Images: Stokes Imaging

36. Funding for streamlined processes

38. Preserve Right to Reuse/Remix

39. Work with partners to get what you want

40. Get going!

41. Say it out loud “ During the next five years, the Library will strengthen further its distinctive work in two areas: digital information technology and special collections . At the same time, [we] will work collaboratively with both internal and external partners to increase access to these exceptional tools, systems, and resources; support new modes of teaching, learning, research, and scholarly communication; and preserve, store, and manage traditional and digital materials for future generations.”

42. Let your goal be discoverability

43. Discovery happens elsewhere – be there

44. Think big thoughts

46. Images: RLG Cultural Materials

47. Resources Shifting Gears http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/collectivecoll/harmonization/specialcollections.htm Blog http://hangingtogether.org/ Web www.oclc.org /programs Ricky Erway [email_address] Thanks to Jennifer Schaffner, Merrilee Proffitt, Karen Calhoun, and other OCLC contributors.