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Selection

How does one choose the best materials to digitize? Selection is an extremely important part of any digitization project. Copyright permissions and the status of copyright for the materials chosen is also vital to the process. The sites below provide more details about selection and copyright issues for digitization.

Selection

• Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging
• Digitization Selection Criteria - South Central Library System, Wisconsin
• Selection for Digitization - A Decision-Making Matrix
• Selecting Research Collections for Digitization

Copyright

• Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive : A Preliminary Assessment
• Library Digitization Projects and Copyright
• Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization
• When U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain

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