[Publib] Results from the International Survey of Library & Musuem Digitization Projects

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Primary Research Group has published: The International Survey of Library  & 
Museum Digitization Projects,  ISBN 1-57440-105-X. The study presents data 
from more than 100 library  & museum digitization programs from academic, public 
and special libraries  and museums in the United  States,  Canada,  Australia, 
 Italy, the  UK and other  countries. The mean annual budget for the 
digitization projects that contributed  to the sample was $122,408, with a range from 
$0 to $1.963 million.  The reports presents data on sources of  funding, the 
outlook for raising money for additional projects, collaboration  within and 
outside of institutions, staffing of digitization projects, spending  on 
hardware and software, practices on rights, permissions and copyright  clearance, 
outsourcing, staff training, impact of digitization on preservation  mediums, 
cataloging issues, marketing of digitization projects and other aspects  of 
library and museum digitization project management. Data is broken out by  size and 
type of digitization project and by size and type of institution. Data  is 
presented separately for text, photograph, audio, and film/video intensive  
projects. Data is broken out separately for public libraries. 
Just of few of the report’s many findings are that: 
More than 60% of the funding for the projects in the sample is derived  from 
the library budget itself.  For  U.S. libraries,  close to 64% of funds for 
digitization projects comes from the library  budget. 
A shade more than 20% of the organizations in the sample believe that the  
outlook for raising money for digitization projects from outside sources is not  
favorable, while more than 43% characterize it as “not too bad,” more than 
32%  call it “pretty good” and more than 4% characterize it as excellent. 
More than 53% of the organizations in the sample have teamed up with  another 
 
department or faculty of the organization to work jointly on a  digitization 
project. 
The institutions in the sample had a mean of 4.43 individuals who spent  at 
least part of their working day on digitization projects, with a maximum of  
20. 
The organizations in the sample spent a mean of $21,839 on equipment to  
copy,  
duplicate, record, photograph, scan or transform content of any kind into  
digital formats.  Median spending  was only $3,000 and the range was 
$0-$330,000. 
The mean number of hours spent obtaining rights  permissions or copyright 
clearance of the organizations in the sample was  221.04.   
Nearly 49% of the organizations in the sample outsource  some form of 
digitization, in whole or in part, to an outside party.  Museums were more likely 
than other  organizations to do this kind of outsourcing; more than 61% of the 
museums in  the sample outsource some form of digitization to an outside party. 
Projects  that were photograph-intensive were also more likely to describe 
themselves as  being deficient in mastering digitization skills; more than 31% of 
the  organizations in this category said they had a great deal to learn, 
while  another 25% said that they had gotten better but still had a long way to  
go.   
More than 61% of the organizations in the sample had some form of digital  
asset  
management software.  52% had  their own in-house system, while another 9.2% 
share a system with other  departments or divisions of their organization. 
44.68% of the organizations in the sample said that  digitization had had no 
impact on their use of microfilming or other  preservation mediums.   
The mean percentage of total labor time required for  digitization projects 
that is accounted for by cataloging and metadata tasks is  about 37%, with a 
range of zero to 85%.   
Only 8.16% of the organizations in the sample had  completely outsourced a 
digitization project to another organization such as a  major museum or 
university that specializes in such projects.   
17.7% of the organizations in the sample license or rent  use of any aspect 
of their digital collection to outside parties.   
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