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Here are some resources to help you plan your institution's digitization and preservation projects.

Grants writing and funding resources

Grant proposal writing takes time, planning and a certain finesse—you've got to hit the right notes, express your vision with clarity and precision, and convince the funder that your project is worthy of the funding you're requesting.

To help you get the job done with style—so you can get the grant funding you need—OCLC has created several resources to help you get the right words down on paper.

The OCLC Grant Writing Guide offers step-by-step instructions for grant proposal writing, from planning to dissemination. Don't start writing without it.

Grant Writing Hints is a collection of tips offering insights on everything from persuading your audience to checking your math.

Trends in Preservation and Operating Funding offers an insider's view of how funding issues continue to evolve in this area.

Funding sources lists resources to help you locate available grant funds.

Standards and practices

Not only do we live by industry standards, we help shape and improve them so your collections can remain available for the future even while staying compliant with ever-evolving best practices and methodologies.

OCLC staff serve on working groups such as Preservation Metadata: Implementation Standards (PREMIS) to develop a comprehensive framework for preservation metadata standards. In addition, we have also invested in other standards, including:

And we work to document and disseminate good practices for digitization and preservation so we can all learn from other organizations at the forefront of this field.

Online copyright resource kit

A collection of resources about copyright issues in the digital age is available in the Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center archive.

OCLC/RLG working group reports

Mailing lists and discussion groups

  • DIGLIB (Digital Libraries Research): Send e-mail to LISTSERV@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA with the command SUBSCRIBE DIGLIB first name last name in the body of your message.
  • IMAGELIB: Send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with the command sub imagelib your full name in the body of your message.
  • Microforms Mailing: Send e-mail to majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu with the command subscribe microforms in the body of your message.
  • PADG-L(Preservation Administrators Discussion Group): Send e-mail to listproc@cornell.edu with the command subscribe PADG-L yourname in the subject of your message.

Electronic publications

Useful connections