DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects, 2013 Edition" report to their offering.
This report is based on data from more than 80 libraries and museums in the USA, Canada, Australia, continental Europe and other locales. The study gives highly detailed data and commentary on the library and museum digitization projects of many institutions, including but not limited to budgets, costs, equipment purchases, use of consultants, outsourcing, revenue generation, marketing, software use, rights and permissions, relations with parent institutions, use of social media, online exhibits funding and fundraising and many other facets of the rapidly growing world of library and museum collection digitization. The study helps its end users to answer questions such as: what equipment is favored for what purposes by museum and library digitizers? How do the operations of digitizers of print materials compare to those that digitize voice or video or photographs? How are digitized collections marketed? How much labor is expended and what are the costs? How are decisions made about in-house digitization vs. outsourcing?
Just a few of the study's main findings are that:
- Digitization projects or departments in the sample have a mean annual budget of $105,907 for digitization
- 37.97 percent of survey participants have an unfavorable outlook for raising money for digitization from sources outside the main institutional budget
- Digitization spending will increase somewhat to substantially among 45.45 percent of institutions focusing their digitization efforts on film, video and audio recordings
- Special libraries in the sample have a mean of 6.87 employees doing digitization work of some kind and devote nearly 7,300 hours in staff time to this work annually
- A mean of 19.23 percent of the physical exhibits staged by survey participants are accompanied by a substantial online exhibit that reproduces a significant portion of or adds to the exhibit in a significant way
- Organizations or divisions that focus their digitization efforts on text documents have outsourced a mean of 30.7 percent of their digitization, nearly twice as much as those focusing their efforts on photographs
- 11.11 percent of survey participants share an asset management system with other departments or divisions of their institution
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