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Digitizing Hospital Archives

We are living in a fascinating era of mass digitization and exponential growth. While cutbacks and space shortages confront most hospital libraries, a critical mass of information rapidly accumulates and multiplies in our shrinking annexes and storage spaces. At present, retrieving information from these resources is usually limited by manpower and oftentimes weighed against more pressing priorities. It is precisely these types of scenarios that make various collections within our libraries the perfect candidates for digitization projects. Items that can be converted into digital objects include: recorded oral histories and visual materials such as maps, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards, and photographic images. The use of hardware and software transforms these materials into manageable bits and bytes of