Digitizing Microfilm and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Links

General Newspaper Information for Microfilming
• N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual
  
Microfilming, Digitization, and OCR
• United States Newspaper Program (USNP) (via National Endowment for the Humanitities)
  
• Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization
  [PDF: ?KB/9p.]
  
• Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming (IFLA Professional Reports, Number 49)
  [PDF: ?KB/66p.]
  
• Microfilming for Digitisaton and Optical Character Recognition, Supplement to Guidelines (via Newspapers Section (IFLANet)
  
• Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images
  
• Moving Theory into Practice : Digital Imaging Tutorial (via Cornell University)
  
• Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections - Appendix E: Digitization (via Oxford University)
  
• Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections by Timothy W. Cole
  (via First Monday, volume 7, number 5 [May 2002])
  
• Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure by Stewart Granger (via D-Lib, volume 8, number 2 [February 2002])
  
• Why Digitize by Abby Smith (via Council on Library and Information Resources)
  
• Preliminary Results of Investigation to Optimize Microfilm for Digitization [PDF: 30KB/3p.]
  
• Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books by Stephen Chapman, Paul Conway, and Anne Kenney (via RLG DigiNews: Volume 3, Number 1)
  
• Microfilm, Paper and OCR: Issues in Newspaper Digitization by Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert
  [PDF: ?KB/9p.]
  
• FAQ-Microfilm Scanning (via RLG DigiNews: Volume 5, Number 3)
  
• Quick and Dirty Guide to Microfilm Digitization Companies (via SLA News Division)
  
• Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Progress and Prospects by Marilyn Deegan, Emil Steinvel, Edmund King (via RLG DigiNews, Volume 6, Number 4, [August 15, 2002])
  
• Language And Media Processing (LAMP) (via University of Maryland, College Park)
  
• Digitization and Preservation (via OCLC - Products and Services)