Digital Collections
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Mission StatementDigital Collections advances the University's teaching and research mission by providing digitization services and support to Northwestern faculty and graduate students. We partner with other library and university departments to provide these services and to undertake special digitization projects that bring Northwestern's unique and rare collections to researchers around the world.AboutFormed in 2007, Digital Collections subsumed Digital Media Services, the Visual Media Collection, the Kirtas scanning initiative, and digital library project management. While digital content production is at the heart of Digital Collections, the department is also firmly committed to instruction, training and user support. Within the Marjorie I. Mitchell Digital Media Center, Digital Collections-2E Production provides digitization services, including audio and video streaming, slide scanning, audio production and special projects, for Northwestern faculty, staff and graduate students. In addition, the Kirtas scanning initiative digitizes out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections, including brittle books, ensuring broad access to their contents. The Digital Collections-2E Training Lab offers production equipment and instruction on various hardware and software applications. Though it is primarily a Macintosh lab, the Library's only public optical character recognition text scanner (running on a Windows PC) is also available here. The most common training and production requests in the lab are for video editing, audio editing, DVD burning, text scanning and slide scanning. Instruction is available to faculty, staff and graduate students who wish to explore new modes of research and presentation. Digital Collections also works with the Digital Library Committee to |
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