So far, I think the most valuable part has been the discussion and group work.
Here's the first of a series of presentations that I've been giving them:
Introduction to Digitisation
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Academic librarian blogging about digitisation, new technologies and social media in libraries, repositories and anything else that takes her fancy.
"The system, developed by lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, lets you scan a book by rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera. They call this method book flipping scanning. They told me they can digitize a 200-page book in one minute, and hope to make that even faster."
"True, it might not be a perfect, high-resolution copy of the book. The scanning process might skip pages and, well, your fingers might appear in the images. And that's not to mention all the copyright questions."
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