<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Primary Research Group has published the Survey
of Academic Library & Museum Efforts to Digitize Rare Book/Document
Collections, ISBN 978-1-57440-691-7</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">44 organizations discuss their efforts to
digitize their rare book and document collections, specifying future plans,
providing data on budgets and use of staff time, among other issues. The study
provides data on the extent of digitization efforts of rare materials such as
illuminated manuscripts, parchment and inscriptions in hard surfaces such as
metal or stone, as well as the overall percentage of resources devoted to
pre-Gutenberg texts.  It also looks at
efforts to market digitized collections through social media, digital
repositories, and dedicated web sites and e-newsletters. Participants also
discuss safety and security during digitization, both in-house and through
vendors</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In open ended questions, participants discuss
the kind of equipment that they use and plan to purchase, how they assure
material safety and security during digitization, as well as how they
prioritize which collections to digitize and who influences these decisions.
They also list outside service companies that they have worked with and
describe how they handle digitization of special materials such as textiles or
engineering blueprints, among others. The study also presents highly detailed
data on sources of funding for digitization and current and planned levels of
spending as well as expectations of  the
level of staff resources that will be devoted to digitization efforts in the
near future.  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Just a few of this unique 105-page report’s
many finding are that: </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For
13.6% of survey participants digitization of pre-Gutenberg texts were an
important or critical part of their work.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For
participants from the UK/Ireland 23.1% of their work concerned works developed
prior to the development of book printing.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">41.67%
of survey participants with more than 6 FTE employees in their rare
book/document departments had a separate budget for digitization work.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
outlook for obtaining outside funding for digitization work was much better in
the United States than in other countries.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">48%
of the colleges and universities in the sample have outsourced digitization
efforts to a consultant or outside service company.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">29 college/university libraries, predominantly
research universities, as well as 15 other organizations that maintain
significant rare book collections – museums, historic sites, and public and
special libraries – contributed extensive data and commentary to the
study.  Data in the report is broken out
by region and is presented separately for the USA, for the UK/Ireland, and for
all other countries.  In addition data is
broken out for museums/historic sites, R1 universities, R2 universities,
colleges, and for public and special libraries – as well as by size of rare
book department staff.</span></p>

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