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The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍøfaculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:

• Digitization of 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries 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

51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries Digital Collections use CONTENTdm collections management software. Monthly updates to the collections are posted on the .

• The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries 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 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries. Files from SMU’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.