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Services

Digital Library Services assists UI faculty, staff, and community partners in support of the University's teaching, research, and creative activities. Depending on the nature of the materials, the intended audience, and the available resources, DLS may be able to assist content providers with the following tasks:

Digital collection production:

  • consultation
  • materials assessment
  • project management
  • image scanning and editing
  • text scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) rendering
  • audio and video digitization and processing
  • metadata creation
  • data upload and hosting
  • user interface design

Digital collection migration:

  • metadata and content harvesting
  • metadata analysis and enhancement

Digital publications:

Resource discovery and outreach:

  • user interface development
  • web design
  • integrated access to metasearch tools
  • publicity
  • presentations to faculty, staff, and students

Digital stewardship:

  • training and support
  • long-term storage of master files
  • implementation of migration strategies
  • metadata standards consulting
  • persistent identification of digital objects
  • archiving web pages

Digital Library Services
Centennial Dinner preparation, The University of Iowa, 1947
from Iowa City Town and Campus Digital Collection