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The article examines the influence of More Products, Less Process (MPLP) on digitization practices and discusses how a major digitization project involving the John Muir Papers had decision making that reflects elements of the MPLP philosophy. It further analyzes how the minimalist metadara practices supported by MPLP require careful implementation with the context of evolving user expectations for locating information on the Web. It cites the relevance of MPLP to digitization in making user access paramount, embracing flexibility and expending greatest effort on the most deserving materials. It notes how the Muir Papers project shows how different series in the same collection can legitimately merit differing levels of image capture and description.

The article reports on the issues for selecting collections and describing collection contents in the Digitization of the California history collection of the University of the Pacific's library. According to the author, photographic collections were first selected for digitization because of its broad use. Furthermore, selection and documentation process of the collections for digitization are discussed in the article. Among the collections that were digitalized by the university includes the stereographic images of the photographer Charles Pitcher Spooner, the aerial photographs of the University's campus in Stockton and the photographs of the nature writer John Muir.