Guidance and Best Practices
Training
- Digital stewardship training webinar from WebJunction (OCLC)
Collaboration
- Digital Public Library of America: Launched in 2013, this open, national digital library has a partner network that includes 41 states and more than 4,000 contributing institutions.
- HathiTrust Digital Library: This collaborative of academic and research institutions offers shared access to millions of digitized titles.
- NTKN Communities of Practice: Cooperative Digitization: This group discusses collection development, cataloging, digital rights, promotion, contracting and best practices for digitizing transportation collections, as well as eliminating duplication of effort.
Library Examples
- Digitization plans guide an organization’s approach to all facets of the process. Examples include:
- Northwestern University Transportation Library (NUTL) digitization strategy: Librarian Roberto Sarmiento discusses how NUTL selects projects to add to its digital collections, including the importance of having a clear vision and plan for new digital projects and promoting the resources once they are acquired.
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Library and Archive digital strategy is built around eight core values that allow the library to enhance patrons’ experience through value-added services: immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, findability, embodiment and patronage.
- Digitization projects: The NTL Digitization Resource Guide contains an extensive list of transportation-related digitization projects and digital collections.
