The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries Special Collections materials. nCDS operates a state-of-the-art digitization center that allows rare and fragile materials held in the special collections to be digitized in exceptionally high-quality.
If you are an èßäÊÓƵapp faculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:
- Digitization of èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries Special Collections materials. Faculty and student requests receive priority.
- Tours and overviews about digitization of special collections.
- Consultations, tutorials, class sessions, and learning labs pertaining to digital collections, digitization, and digital preservation.
- Booking the nCDS oral history studio for live interviews.
About Digital Collections
èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries Digital Collections use CONTENTdm collections management software. Monthly updates to the collections are posted on the .
- The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries Digital Collections are documented in the Digital Collections Workflow and Metadata Guidelines.
- nCDS's best practices meet or exceed the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative’s technical guidelines for digitizing cultural heritage materials.
- nCDS uses this rights and permission evaluation procedure when adding items to èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries Digital Collections.
Digital Preservation
The digital preservation program adopts best practices to ensure the integrity, authenticity, and long-term preservation of digital and born-digital materials belonging to èßäÊÓƵapp Libraries. Files from èßäÊÓƵapp’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.