# Finding Pictures: Our Digital Collections - Each Image Has Its Own Path

Each digital image in the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division has its own origin story and workflow to becoming available on the Library of Congress website. What defines an image as born digital and how do we approach digitizing negatives? Digital Library Specialist Taren Ouellette will guide you through the highlights of these activities from the Farm Security Administration and Carol M. Highsmith collections. Discover the various methods we use to display these treasures online, the kind of camera setup needed to digitize over 50,000 black and white negatives, and what kind of software is used to form metadata into catalog records.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2022
- By: Library Of Congress. Prints And Photographs Division
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698342/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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