ASCLA ICAN (InterLibrary Cooperation and Networking) Collaborative Digitization Interest Group is soliciting proposals for presentations at its meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Saturday, June 29, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Presentation topics should be of interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and developers working across a diverse array of consortia, libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions.
We especially welcome overviews or demonstrations of ongoing or completed collaborative digitization projects. Other possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Governance and sustainability models
Partner / participant agreements
Digitization standards: multimedia resources, text, still images
Advice for new collaborative digitization projects
Non-traditional digitization projects
Centralized or decentralized services
Staffing
Budgets, costs, and charges
Presentations should be approximately 12-15 minutes in length. We will allow time for questions and answers. Speakers are encouraged to lead discussions.
To submit a proposal for presentation, please email a brief description of your proposed topic to Rhonda Marker, chair of the Collaborative Digitization IG, by May 17, 2013. <rmarker@rci.rutgers.edu>