Group Prospectus

Overview:

Introduction: (Alex V. & David J.)

With our project it is our group’s job to dive into the dynamics of digitization and what it exactly means. In order to do this we will discover what contents can be digitized and forms of presentation and organization of those contents. We’ll also review digitization’s benefits and drawbacks from different perspectives, such as experts in the field of digitization (digitizers), any reference librarians, and a “professional” user perspective.

While researching these three perspectives we’ll dive into smaller sub areas listed below:

Digitizer: (Alex V. & David J.)

· Costs of Digitization (copyright, support, materials, etc.)

· Level of cooperation between libraries (Unnecessary to copy the same book numerous times when it’s already been digitized)

Reference Librarian: (Alex C. & Brandon)

· Management of Information and databases (relevance of information and ease of access)

· How digital libraries compare to traditional libraries (How to present information due to the fact that its massively larger than a traditional libraries archives)

· To discover the actual usage of the reference librarian services as a middle-man

“Professional” User: (Andrew and David M.)

· Benefits of obtaining digitized information

· Problems that occur when trying to access digitized information (Dealing with the massive amount of information and finding the most relevant to what you need)

· What he/she thinks digitization might become in the future

Group Plan:

All of the perspectives above lead to a great interview opportunity to satisfy our human element requirement. Within our group we will split our six into teams of two to research each perspective. When completed we will come back together as a group to share our research and combine our thoughts and ideas to develop our final presentation.