DIGITIZING EVERYTHING? THE LAUNCH OF THE DIGITAL IMAGING PROGRAM AT QUEENS LIBRARY.

摘要

In 2006, the Queens Borough Public Library established a Digital Initiative to digitize the contents of its archives. The Initiative was formally launched in 2009, and at that time, I joined the program as its metadata librarian. I served on the committee that was instrumental to the program's metadata policy, workflow design, and implementation. In the course of this work, I frequently revisited the program's development phases and initial launch in order to focus my role. Reexamining this history allowed a deeper understanding of the program's mission. From this perspective, in this paper, I reflect on and examine how the QBPL staff spearheaded the program and launched the administrative unit. I will discuss the key deliberations we undertook regarding the program's institutional impact, major milestones we achieved during the developmental stages, and program-related discoveries we made in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]