The Macomb Public Library District worked with the digital imaging staff of the Illinois State Library (ISL) to enhance the Illinois Digital Archive (IDA), a part of the Find-It! Illinois Web site (finditillinois.org) through the Statewide Archival Technology Team (SWAT).

The Illinois Alive digital imaging project uses audio description to make the images accessible to people with visual impairments.

I have a keen interest in photography and historic photographic preservation. Here is an annotated bibliography I put together earlier this year with sources some of you might find helpful.

The Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, Illinois worked with the local historical society and the Illinois State Library to improve access to local history.

This paper covers the history of glass plate negatives, the storage of glass plate negatives, handling techniques and common conservation concerns, reformatting of glass plate negatives and the use of scanning and digitization as a means to create preservation and user copies.

Lori Bell of the Alliance (IL) Library System and her colleagues guide you through the basics of library digitization projects.