The pandemic threw into sharp relief the need for digitization as a strategy for ensuring not only the preservation but also the online accessibility of documentary heritage as a knowledge asset. A key issue is the inability – often associated with budgetary constraints – to undertake large-scale digitization projects which can enable their libraries, archives, museums. This publication providing such memory institutions with state-of-the-art technical information on how to manage low-cost digitization projects and highlighting existing resource opportunities and partnerships for such digitization projects.

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