Qatar National Library and UCL Qatar cordially invite you to a public talk titled "Designing a Digitization Strategy: Thoughts on Digitization and Selection for Cultural Heritage Institutions" by Dr. Christy Henshaw*.
Research libraries share a common goal: to see real impact come from high-quality experiences by their users. More and more integral to this is the conversion of physical materials into digital formats for broad access and use, but our task is often an overwhelming one. The backlog can be enormous. When we do digitize, we have great expectations in terms of quantity and quality of use. Often our reality does not match that expectation – or not in the long term.
This talk will explore some strategies to help maximize the potential for achieving impact from our digitization activities. Interpretation into Arabic will be provided.
Date: 31 January 2018
Time: 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Venue: QNL’s Auditorium
This is an open event. Registration is not required.
* Christy Henshaw, PhD. Digital Production Manager, Wellcome Collection (London, UK). Christy manages the large-scale digitization program at the Wellcome Collection Library, a library for the history of medicine based in London. During this time her team have made some 200,000 works from the Wellcome’s historical and modern collections available online, including nearly 500 manuscripts from their historic Arabic manuscript collection. Her team looks after long-term strategic digitization as well as responsive “on-demand” services.