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The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves Íæż½ã½ãLibraries 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 Íæż½ã½ãfaculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:

• Digitization of Íæż½ã½ãLibraries 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

Íæż½ã½ãLibraries Digital Collections use CONTENTdm collections management software. Monthly updates to the collections are posted on the .

• The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for Íæż½ã½ãLibraries 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 Íæż½ã½ãLibraries 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 Íæż½ã½ãLibraries. Files from SMU’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.