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LSAT Outreach Grant -Day 2- Digitization- Pilot Training

The session today concentrated on digitization. Giz and Audra taught the basics of digitization, along with lots of discussion with the group. Each group has unique materials and needs, so the questions help them sort out their individual questions.

Giz taught Image and Slide Scanning, and Digitizing Video
•Reasons for digitization- fragility, providing access to rare materials
•Equipment description, problems associated with digitizing video/audio-file size, resolution
•Scanning photos on the large bed scanner- resolution of images and what resolution to use for each application: web (100 dpi), print (300 dpi), etc. File formats: jpg, tiff, gif, etc.
•Scanning and saving images onto the computer and saving to external devices
•Scanning slides- file size, resolution, etc.
•Digitizing video- demonstrating EZ Video Converter and the digitization process, saving the file as an mp3
•Using Audacity to edit and digitize audio

Audra taught using Youtube to upload video, Flickr to upload images, and Scrbd for documents.

The group all appreciated the sessions and seemed optimistic about their future projects.