Services
Digital Services
Digital Services is one of the primary caretakers responsible for the transformation of the Library's rare and unique materials to digital formats. Using specialized equipment to properly handle these materials, we digitize such varied objects as rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other artifactual objects. Digital Service's primary mission is to convert these rare materials to digital formats that the U.Va. community can use to support their research and instructional needs. Our secondary mission is to use these digital surrogates as a means to highlight and promote the library's rare materials in such a way that more users can gain access and discover them.
Services:
- Digitization of Library collections for online discovery and dissemination
- Digitization of Library collections by request for use in research, teaching, or publication (print or digital)
- Please review our Use of Materials Requirements and Policy Statements.
Digital Stewardship Services
Digital Stewardship Services coordinates, curates, and sustains digital library activities, drawing on the skills and expertise of individuals throughout the library as appropriate, to vet, prioritize, and prepare digital materials for the Library Managed Content (LMC) collections. Additional information concerning the Library and digital stewardship can be found here.
Services:
- Content Knowledge & Outreach
- Provides a prioritization framework for current and future content intended for the LMC collection.
- Provides a contact and coordination point for subject librarians for selections made for the LMC collection.
- Provides technical training and documentation of library systems tools and processes.
- Collection Support & Processing
- Pilots new and legacy LMC collections through the appropriate workflows and ingestion processes.
- Researches provenance of digital materials and republication requests
- Hosts and supports selected U.Va. academic publishing activities
- Metadata Coordination
- Works with colleagues across the library to implement best practices for administrative, structural, and descriptive metadata requirements for LMC.
- Preservation Partner
- Works with Preservation Services to ensure the LMC collections are created and maintained in a sustainable way.
Repository Services
Services:
- Design, implementation, and support for the services needed to manage, discover and deliver the Library's digital collections
Please see our contacts page to reach the appropriate staff.
News & Events ...
DCS Summer Internship Applications Due May 7th, 2012.
Where to go ...
Requests for Digital Curation Services services may be placed at the following location:
- the Scholars' Lab in Alderman Library
