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A Mass Digitization Primer
- Library Trends
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 57, Number 1, Summer 2008
- pp. 17-23
- 10.1353/lib.0.0026
- Article
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Many people are talking these days about "digitizing books." But what does that really mean? This paper describes different kinds of digitizing, the pros and cons of each, and suggests a layered structure for understanding "digitization."