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ARL has published Managing Digitization Activities (SPEC Kit 294), which describes findings from sixty-eight responses to a February 2006 survey on the topic. From the Executive Summary:

This SPEC survey was designed to identify the purposes of ARL member libraries’ digitization efforts, the organizational structures these libraries use to manage digital initiatives, whether and how staff have been reassigned to support digitization activities, where funding to sustain digital activities originated and how that funding is allocated, how priorities are determined, whether libraries are outsourcing any digitization work, and how the success of libraries’ digital activities has been assessed.

This SPEC kit also contains a number of primary documents provided by the responding libraries, including organizational charts, mission statements, position descriptions, policies and procedures, statements of selection and assessment criteria.