Scott Piepenburg

So you have materials laying around that are valuable as archival items such as school yearbooks, great sound slide materials from school activities…materials you want to preserve and are afraid that no one will be able to play those audio cassetts or CDs or old film formats? Piepenburg sets out ways to digitize these materials so that they will be around a while and describes the equipment and techniques needed to presearve these important items through digitization. The book may be very valuable to your student tech team who may be invited to investigate digitization as a preservation practice. It would be a very valuable skill to learn, for example, how to convert those old videotapes that no one can play any more. There are jobs in preservation now, even at local COSTCOs and in many business and industrial settings where preservation is important. This book just might help not only your school but also the young people learning how to deal with preservation.… (mais)

Without any copyright guidance, this book offers simple instructions about how to digitize information into formats currently in use. The works that deserve this conversion have already been vetted and imagined as valuable as a research/information item, and therefore valuable enough to convert. How to consider this is discussed in this book. Digitizing can also offer hope for material that is deemed valuable but is decaying and in need of format upgrade. The types of technologies and software to use for digitizing are discussed. The concerns of metadata are discussed also, and even media other than what is discussed as digitizable in this book are mentioned.… (mais)