Is it possible for there to be a zero of history? History suggests such a continuum; there is always something that has happened before, and something that has happened before that something.
I have a zero history of digitization. I have never owned a scanner. The only time I have scanned an artifact would be when scanning signed IRB documents for my research. Would that be considered digitizing for access? The point is so my colleagues can see them. But the original and scanned copy will be destroyed within a few months. The fact that they will be annihilated in the near future makes me believe they do not count.
So my official history of digitization began with class day one. When I digitized a piece of paper from Jessica's Texas Exes cookbook. Bam! Then a digitizationathon!
My digitization skills are growing exponentially.
So why take Survey of Digitization? Because of all the digital things.
There are many digital things. Fact.
Public libraries deal with digital things. Yes.
I want to be able to create new digital artifacts. I want to know what to do with digital artifacts that others give me professionally to make sure they are all in tip top shape. I see the public library becoming more and more digital (why does it surprise non-info sci people when I say this?) and I want to be knowledgeable in as many aspects of what that may mean as possible.
Non-professionally and Non-class work related...I want to digitize my grandmother's cookbook for my mom. So I'm going to be doing that later in the semester if I can convince my mom to let me have the cookbook for any length of time.
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