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Transportation Library Quick Guide: Appendix A: Demonstrating Value/Digitization

Demonstrating Value

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How Much is a Special Library Worth? Valuing and Communicating Information in an Organizational Context (2014)

LibGuide: National Transportation Knowledge Network Blog: Understanding Modern Transportation Libraries (2020)

LibGuide: National Transportation Knowledge Network Communities of Practice: Library Advocacy

MnDOT Library Return on Investment (ROI) Study (2013)

Proving Your Library’s Value: A Toolkit for Transportation Librarians (2012)

Special Libraries and the Information Services Lifecycle (2020)

Digitization

Anatomy of a Digital Project Webinar Series (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), 2012)

Data Repositories Conformant With the DOT Public Access Plan (National Transportation Library, 2022)

Digital Collections (Northwestern University Libraries)

Digital Public Library of America

Digital Stewardship Training (WebJunction, OCLC, 2022)

Digitization Best Practices (Princeton University Library)

Digitization Cost Calculator (Digital Library Federation)

Digitization Cost Calculator Raw Data (Digital Library Federation)

HathiTrust Digital Library

Historic Archives Digital Collections (Iowa DOT)

In-house vs. Outsourced Digitization: Similarities, Key Differences and Pitfalls to Avoid (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Library, 2019)

LibGuide: Digitization (American Library Association)

LibGuide: Digitization Metadata Standards (National Transportation Library)

LibGuide: Digitization Process (National Transportation Library)

LibGuide: Example Digitization Projects (National Transportation Library)

LibGuide: National Transportation Knowledge Network Communities of Practice: Cooperative Digitization

LibGuide: National Transportation Knowledge Network Communities of Practice: Cooperative Digitization Meeting Minutes (June 2021)

LibGuide: Preservation: Digitization (American Library Association)

Meeting the Needs of Modern Transportation Researchers by Transforming the Iowa Department of Transportation Library: Early Efforts and Results (2015)

The Metro Transportation Library and Archive: “Better Than Free” Generative Values (2012)

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

Outsourcing and Vendor Relations (Northeast Document Conservation Center)

Selection for Digitization: Factors to Consider (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois)

Transport Research International Documentation (TRID) (Transportation Research Board)

Washington State DOT Library Digital Collections