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***Apologies for cross-postings*** Hello, I want to share today's launch of the Culture in Transit toolkit <https://mnylc.github.io/cit-toolkit/>, the culmination of 18 months of work funded by the Knight Foundation at METRO, Queens Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. We are excited to share the information and experiences we have amassed over the course of the project -- gathered into a helpful, user-friendly tool, that we are confident will enable others to undertake such work. We'd love to hear your feedback, comments or any questions you might have regarding the Toolkit; you can contact us at [log in to unmask] Thanks, Maggie NEW TOOLKIT FROM CULTURE IN TRANSIT PROVIDES KEY RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DIGITIZATION INITIATIVES We are pleased to announce the launch of the Culture in Transit Toolkit <http://www.metro.org/cit-toolkit>. The Toolkit features extensive content that brings together equipment recommendations, standards, best practices, and strategies from three institutions in New York City working to bring mobile scanning equipment to smaller libraries, archives, museums, and the communities they serve. The project offered library patrons and cultural heritage institutions an opportunity to create digital copies of their materials using state-of-the-art equipment. Funded by a generous grant from the John L. and James S. Knight Foundation <http://www.knightfoundation.org/>,Knight News Challenge on Libraries <https://www.newschallenge.org/> in 2014, Culture in Transit <http://www.mnylc.org/cit/> was a collaborative, 18-month-long mobile digitization project of the Metropolitan New York Library Council <http://metro.org/> (METRO), the Brooklyn Public Library <https://www.bklynlibrary.org/> and Queens Library <http://www.queenslibrary.org/>. Our work fell into two main areas: community digitization events hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library in their respective boroughs, and digitization of small archival collections held by local cultural heritage institutions, coordinated by METRO. The 3,400 digitized items created through Culture in Transit are now publicly accessible in our respective organizations’ digital repositories, and are also available in the Digital Public Library of America <https://dp.la/> (DPLA). A major goal of this project was to create a replicable model for future mobile digitization efforts. The information and documentation provided in the Toolkit will allow others to do just that. Read more about the Toolkit <http://metro.org/articles/new-toolkit-from-culture-in-transit/>