Re: diglib: outsourcing digitizing?

[Faye Chadwell <chadwelf@uoregon.edu>]

Jon,

The UO Libraries have been approached already about outsourcing our
digitizing efforts (i.e., Proquest and the Oregonian).   I
think the DCC has confirmed that outsourcing is an approach we would take
as appropriate.  No library, especially one given our resources, can
take on performing all aspects of every the possible digital project we
want to pursue.  Since we are a member of Portico, the "dark
journal archive," you could say we have outsourced digital
preservation for a certain portion of our e-journals.  

My two cents,  Faye


At 08:40 PM 2/27/2007, Jon R Jablonski wrote:
> I had a conversation at Online
> Northwest with an OCLC rep (Cynthia Busse) about our digitizing
> efforts.  She hinted that OCLC is developing services along these
> lines, but didn't offer many specifics.  I though outsourcing might
> have come up in last Friday's brown bag, but it didn't.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -jon

Faye A. Chadwell
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