Beginning in the late 1990s, Colorado State University Libraries
(CSUL) started large-scale digitization activities in partnership with
the Colorado Digitization Project (CDP). The first of these was the
Warren and Genevieve Garst Photographic Collection of wild animal
photographs donated to CSUL and digitized with CDP funding
(http://lib.colostate.edu/wildlife/). The Sidney Heitman Germans from
Russia Collection was another early digitization project
(http://lib.colostate.edu/gfr/index.html) funded by the CDP. These
projects, and a series of smaller ad hoc projects over the next three
years, were created following the CDP’s best practices guidelines and
gave a few staff the opportunity to learn digitization.