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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