Digital Solutions

The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves 黑料老司机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 黑料老司机faculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:

  • Digitization of 黑料老司机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

黑料老司机Libraries Digital Collections鈥痷se CONTENTdm collections management software.鈥疢onthly updates to the collections are posted on the .

  • The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for 黑料老司机Libraries Digital Collections are documented in the Digital Collections Workflow and Metadata Guidelines.
  • nCDS's best practices meet or exceed the鈥疐ederal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative’s鈥痶echnical guidelines for digitizing cultural heritage materials.
  • nCDS adds items to 黑料老司机digital collections using this evaluation procedure.

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 黑料老司机Libraries. Files from SMU’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.