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Introduction

• The Digitization Handbook outlines the procedures and technical specifications used to digitize archival and special collections held by the Dalhousie Libraries. 
  
  
• Terms in the Handbook are defined in the Dalhousie Libraries' Documentation Wiki Glossary.

Documentation

• Introduction
• Basic digitization workflow
• Digitization facilities
• Section 2.0 - Standard size textual records
• Section 3.0 - Books, journals, and other bound multi-page items
• Section 4.0 - Maps, technical drawings, posters, and other oversize documents
• Section 5.0 - Photographic prints
• Section 6.0 - Photographic slides
• Section 8.0 - Glass plate negatives
• Section 9.0 - Outsourced digitization of audiovisual items
• Section 11.0 - Video tape
• Section 17.0 - Herbarium specimens
• Appendix A - Quality Control
• Appendix B - Guiding principles for file naming and file organization
• Appendix C - Technical specifications for "master" files