Practical Digitization - Boot Camp Series

Date/Time:   Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 9:30 - 5:00
Location:       Broome County Public Library, Binghamton
Instructor:    K. Matthew Dames, Seso Group LLC
Registration: $30/SCRLC members; $35 non-members  
                    Lunch and refreshments included.

Audience:    Librarians and staff working with digital resources. This workshop is required for all participants in SCRLC’s Tools of History digitization program.

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This workshop will provide participants with a thorough grounding in identifying and resolving the legal issues involved in beginning and managing digitization projects. These projects render paper documents, analog, or physical objects into digitized form.  This advanced program presumes participants have a basic understanding of copyright concepts and issues.  The program will focus on print digitization.  

The instructor will use a case study approach.  Participants will learn to identify problems and solutions in context while focusing on four topics:

•    Copyright (including clearances);
•    Contracts law (including deeds of gift);
•    Trademark law;
•    State rights of privacy and publicity.

Presenter: K. Matthew Dames has been involved with copyright, information and media issues for more than 30 years from the perspectives of law, journalism, higher education, publishing and music. He is the executive editor of the online publications Copycense [http://copycense.com] and Core Copyright [http://corecopyright.org], both of which are devoted to U.S. copyright law and policy within the context of media, content and cyberspace. He also has been an intellectual property columnist with Information Today for the past five years.  Currently, Mr. Dames is the managing director of Seso Group LLC.

Practical Digitization is a two-year grant designed to teach regional library and museum staff members to digitize and manage resources to contribute to their libraries’ collections and the SCRLC regional repository. The emphasis of the workshops is on providing practical, hands-on learning opportunities for participants in SCRLC’s Tools of History and similar collaborative digitization projects. This training is funded in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).