Digitization Services
Digitization Services' primary mission is to convert rare materials to digital formats that the UVa community can use to support their research and instructional needs. Our secondary mission is to use these digital surrogates as a means to highlight and promote the library's rare materials in such a way that more users can gain access and discover them. We will always endeavor to deliver materials to anyone who request them. There will be times, however, when the fragility of the original will render it impossible to digitize.
Services
- Scanning of print, manuscript and other materials from the Special Collections Department for inclusion in printed or World Wide Web documents.
- Coordination and limited project support to faculty and graduate students involved in the development of materials for instruction and / or research.
| Our costs for non-UVa affiliates are as follows: |
| $50.00 for the first hour of service |
| $25.00 for each additional hour. |
Equipment and Software
Digitization Services uses the following equipment to digitize rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and other unique and fragile materials:
2 Phase One P45 digital backs attached to Hasselblad cameras firewire linked to Macintosh workstations
2 Digibook book scanners linked to PCs
1 Cruse Scanner (CS 285 ST-FA) linked to a PC
1 Epson Expression 10000 XL large format scanner running on a Macintosh G5 workstation
Several smaller Epson flatbed scanners
Image manipulation software includes Capture One (for use with the P45 systems), Microsoft Expressions Media, and Adobe Photoshop, which offers a full range of options for image enhancement batch manipulation of image files.
Images can be saved in formats which can be read by software on other platforms. The staff will assist users in transferring image files to other machines on or off Grounds via HTTP download through a special web page. In addition, Digitization Services can deliver image files on CD-r or DVD-r.