FW: diglib: outsourcing digitizing?

["Mark Watson" <mrwatson@uoregon.edu>]

Cynthia Busse does represent OCLC, but she is also firmly enscounced on the
sales side of the organization.  Her job is to get us to buy OCLC products.
That said, I think there is a role for outsourcing to play in any of the
library tasks where volume necessitates a production environment where the
standards can be applied to measure quality.  Large projects lend themselves
well to outsourcing.  Outsourcing becomes controversial when it is held up
as a replacement substitute for local expertise and skills (e.g., you can do
away with catalogers).  Personally, I think you need both and the trick is
to figure out which endeavors you can turn over to someone else and which
need to be handled in-house by local experts.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-diglib@lists.uoregon.edu
[mailto:owner-diglib@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Jon R Jablonski
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:40 PM
To: Diglib
Subject: diglib: outsourcing digitizing?


I had a conversation at Online Northwest with an OCLC rep (Cynthia Busse)
about our digitizing efforts.  She hinted that OCLC is developing services
along these lines, but didn't offer many specifics.  I though outsourcing
might have come up in last Friday's brown bag, but it didn't.

Any thoughts?

-jon