Digitisation Training Days

By Alison Faraday

The British Library Preservation Advisory Centre and RLUK are delighted to announce two training days focusing on digitisation. 

Approaches to digitisation

London : Wednesday 9 February 2010

http://www.bl.uk/blpac/approaches.html

Are you planning a digitisation project?  Do you want to learn more about how to approach this?  This training day includes presentations on the benefits of digitising books and documents; planning for digitisation; how to select materials for digitisation; and preservation issues. 

Handling for Digitisation

York : 18 February 2011

http://www.bl.uk/blpac/digitise.html

Are you setting up a digitisation project?  Do you want to learn more about how to handle books and documents during digitisation?  This training day includes presentations on what to consider when sourcing equipment; preparing books for digitisation; handling during digitisation; outsourcing digitisation and dealing with digital images. 

Each course costs £95 + VAT including lunch and refreshments (£71 + VAT for members of Research Libraries UK)

All bookings received by 3pm on 22 December will be invoiced at the current VAT rate

For full programme and booking details, please see: http://www.bl.uk/blpac/events.html

These events are part of a Preservation Learning Programme jointly sponsored by RLUK and the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre.