id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-11859 O'Hara, Gayle; Lapworth, Emily; Lampert, Cory Cultivating Digitization Competencies 2020-12-21 31 .pdf application/pdf 14500 631 30 There are many reasons for engaging in digitization projects and creating digital collections, including providing increased access to unique collections, preserving fragile records, raising the global profile of the institution, meeting user demand, and supporting the teaching, learning, and research needs of host institutions. From the perspective of librarians and archivists, digitization of special collections and archives materials involves more than just reformatting analog materials into a digital format (this article uses the term “digitization” to refer to the entire lifecycle of digitization projects involving special collections and archives materials, from planning to preservation). cache/ital-11859.pdf txt/ital-11859.txt