[Genealib] outsourcing digitization

[Sharon Centanne]

Make sure your vendor is American and speaks good English. Heaven help
us if we outsource our local history to India! Better to hire local
workers who know the area.

I am blessed to be digitizing a local history index at my local library.
My knowledge of the area after 45 years here is invaluable. I remember a
lot of things that are not in the text, and know what makes sense and
what connects and what names businesses and places used to have decades
ago.

Sharon Centanne
TBLC Local History Database Assistant
St. Petersburg, FL

Amber Cushing wrote:

> This is cross-posted to the archives listserv.
>
> My library is considering using a vendor to digitize our old town
> records and newspapers and have looked into ancestry and iarchives.
> Does anyone have any personal experience with these vendors or any
> similar vendors?  I am specifically interested in the experience of
> having to supervise the onsite workers from these vendors.  In
> addition, if you could re-write a contract with the vendor would you
> have been sure to include certain points or clarify some of the terms,
> etc.?  Were there any unforeseen implications?  Essentially, the
> vendors agree to digitize (onsite or offsite) and provide access to
> their database of the digitized images for our library and other
> negotiated libraries in New Hampshire.  In return, the vendors hold
> the copyright of the electronic version and can sell it to individuals
> and institutions seeking genealogy resources.  If there is interest I
> can summarize the responses I receive. Thanks.
>
> Amber Cushing
>
> Reference Librarian
>
> New HampshireState Library
>
> 20 Park Street
>
> Concord, NH03301
>
> 603-271-3302
>
> acushing at library.state.nh.us
>
> http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/index.html
>
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