The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves ÃÛÌÒ½´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 ÃÛÌÒ½´faculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:
- Digitization of ÃÛÌÒ½´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
ÃÛÌÒ½´Libraries Digital Collections use CONTENTdm collections management software. Monthly updates to the collections are posted on the .
- The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for ÃÛÌÒ½´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 adds items to ÃÛÌÒ½´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 ÃÛÌÒ½´Libraries. Files from SMU’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.