Links to basic cataloging resources, discussions on cataloging, and the most recent developments.

Preservation covers a wide range of activities: repairing the physical damage to well-used materials; transforming physical materials into digital format; or preserving the historic record or other notable resource collections.

The success of a project is generally in proportion to the time spent in planning the project. To help you avoid some of the pitfalls here are some recommendations and resources for planning a digital imaging project.

Three short videos on book repair

Use this checklist to guide your digital library collection development efforts.

Here's a starter list of resources to help you sift through the flood of collection possibilities.

This document represents the efforts to develop best practices guidelines for providing metadata both useful to the local community and suitable for harvesting externally.

How the Hannibal (MO) Free Public Library made its unique history available to the town--and the world.

This checklist is a series of questions that will help identify the inefficiencies of your technical services processes and methods for streamlining them.

Alyce Scott helps explain some of the most common and confusing terms used in digitization projects.