This guidebook outlines the major components of retrospective reformatting, and acts as a checklist of the information which must be gathered and the decisions which must be made in order to complete a project.
Existing guidelines for library group setup, equipment requests, hardware/software requests and project proposal approval apply to retrospective digitization projects. This guidebook will not detail those aspects of accomplishing a project. It is assumed that new retrospective reformatting projects have been approved by Library Computing Council and therefore have already answered a basic project description. This guidebook will build on, and refine that preliminary description.
The following five building blocks of a project interrelate and overlap, but it is useful to think of them as separate modules when developing web-accessible collections. Each section will describe the information that is needed and the decisions that must be made and will link to checklists/forms in which such information can be recorded.
