Summary: This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries' emerging role as publishers. Key Features: (1) Is highly practical. Explains complex processes, warns of potential challenges and provides advice for solving realistic problems. (2) It is comprehensive: includes coverage of the range of techniques and strategies for digitizing and organizing material that practitioners can use to plan and implement digitization projects. The Author: Mark Jordan is Head of Library Systems at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and has published widely. Readership: LIS practitioners; students. Contents: Introduction Preliminary tasks Copyright and digital library collections Metadata and digital library collections File formats Search and display Content management systems Project management Project operations Developing workflows Preservation strategies A case study.