2. Selection

Key Concepts

introduction
legal restrictions
other criteria
selection policies

additional reading

SELECTION POLICIES
Some institutions have developed selection policies or matrixes designed to assist staff in selection for digitization. The following may be of assistance to you in designing your own policies and procedures:

• Library of Congress, "Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital Reformatting"
  
  
• Columbia University, "Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects"
  
  
• University of California, "Selection Criteria for Digitization"
  
  
• Harvard University, "Selection for Digitization: a Decision-Making Matrix"
  
  
• National Agricultural Library, "Selection Criteria and Guidelines"
  
  
• Oxford University, "Decision Matrices and Workflows"  (Appendix B)
  
  
• National Library of Australia Digitisation Policy, 2000-2004.

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