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  • Welcome to Electronic Paper. This is a new weblog by Edward Vielmetti to explore some of the ideas behind a stream of news and creativity that come from the collision between the world of computers and the world of paper.

    More and more of our lives - our reading, our writing, our newspapers, our electronic medical records, our voting, our grocery lists and holiday cards and indie zines and baby photos - are starting out electronic and staying electronic. As we rush headlong to digitize I wonder what we are losing in the process. How many people struggle with keeping up with their email when a simple paper postcard once in a while would make more of an impact?

    This blog will be explore the collision of the paper and electronic worlds, where they intersect happily and where they fight madly. I'm turning on a blog search for "electronic and paper" and will comment on what flies past, just to build a baseline. The other thing which I'll try for is a stream of scans of interesting paper artifacts, showing things that were done better (or at least differently) in another era.

    Welcome for the ride! Do you have a paper ticket or an electronic ticket?
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Library school syllabus (and weblog!) for planning digital collections

Developing Digital Collections
LIBR559 :: School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies:: University of British Columbia:: Winter 2005
Instructor: Mark Jordan,

"Developing Digital Collections" focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing, and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available).

Digitizing collections is a huge challenge - viz. google print - here is a good insight into what is being taught in library school / iSchool classrooms today.

October 09, 2005 in Digitization of books, Education on paper and online, Libraries and electronic documents | | Comments (0)