Digitization Center at Western Michigan University Libraries
Quality digitization and planning for teaching, access, preservation, and research is available at the Digitization Center of Western Michigan University Libraries. Custom digitization projects for classroom, research, and community are welcome.
The Features of the Center
- Current in technologies, standards, and best practices for projects and fullfilling research grants and applications
- Focused coordination of projects; full time project manager
- Comprehensive project planning for smooth work flow
- Full service from planning, through efficient imaging, to hosting
- Library focus on accessibility and usability for intended audiences
- Expertise in color management
- Studio and lab facilities with over 10 digitization systems for accommodating most unique originals
- Availability of metadata creation to current standards
- We work onsite at your location or ours
- Efficiencies of student assistants
- Work is done on a fee-for-service basis
Appointments available for estimates and tours.
Examples of Recent Projects
- Classroom support digitization of out-of-print Michigan history book, text recognition, and published online for broad use across the state and the wider community. - Humanities grant to create a comprehensive, locally-hosted digitized collection of 8 personal manuscripts - Visual arts library making artwork easily available to professors online - County health department needing color slides digitized to share amoung staff - Large are collection needing images shared 3000 miles away - University department desiring specialized images off 3D objects for online lab for grant application budget - Midsized libraries having items preserved digitally and accessible online for their patrons - Special interest group desiring their art book preserved and available for special uses - Department to make map holdings more visual online
Please contact the manager at 269-387-4776, Website [1] www.wmich.edu/library/digi
