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Building Institutional Digitization Guidelines and Benchmarks for Nontraditional Materials and Collections: A Case Study of a Curious Collection of Fabric Swatches

  • Virginia Dressler

    Virginia Dressler is the Digital Projects Librarian at Kent State University. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Kent State (’07) and a Master’s of Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds (’03). Virginia has over ten years of digital project management experience in libraries and museums.

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Abstract

Kent State University Libraries has digitally captured a collection of small fabric swatches in order to create an online resource for them. This article discusses the historical context of the project, presents the guidelines and benchmarks that Kent State Libraries adopted, and assesses the challenges involved with scanning nontraditional materials. The article considers the current lack of standard guidelines and benchmarks regarding the digitization of textiles and offers strategies for carrying out such projects.

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Virginia Dressler

Virginia Dressler is the Digital Projects Librarian at Kent State University. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Kent State (’07) and a Master’s of Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds (’03). Virginia has over ten years of digital project management experience in libraries and museums.

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Published Online: 2016-5-25
Published in Print: 2015-11-1

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