Digitization Center
Waldo Library, # 0156 - 0157a
Phone: 269-387-4776
Fax: 269-387-5519
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Digitization Center Services
Providing quality digitization and planning for access, research and preservation.
- Specialized technologies and resources for increased access
- Custom Digitization Projects for the University and Community
- Project coordination bringing digitized items at WMU to the Internet
- Quality digitization
- Studio and lab facilities with more than 10 image capture systems
- New technologies, standards, and best practices for preservation and access
- Expertise in color management for optimum color quality
- Text recognition (OCR)
- Metadata created to current standards (as required)
- Full service planning, imaging, and hosting
- Full time project manager
- CONTENTdm and LUNA image databases available for hosting
- Training in digitization workflow and process issues available
- Library focus on accessibility and usability
- Digitization project estimates for grant proposals
- Consulting
- Custom Digitization Projects for
- Community, university, business, private
- Work is done on a fee-for-service basis
Digitization Capabilities
- Image capture of almost any size flat original (up to 42” and ½” thick)
- Film and transparencies up to 12.2” x 16.5”
- Batch scanning of mounted slides
- Text scans from books and sheets with OCR (optical character recognition)
- High-speed scanning of individual single and double-sided pages
- High quality digital photography and copy work up to 39 megapixels per image
- Fragile manuscript and document handling with specialized cradles and holding devices
- Specialized scanners for handling bound books and non-standard documents
- Three-dimensional originals with color balanced lighting
- QuickTimeVR creation with motion and zoom for 3D items
- Archival color printing up to 44”
- Microfiche and microfilm digitization
- Color managed work flow
- Online image database hosting
- Problem-solving experience for unique originals
- Custom services all available in-house
Types of Projects Completed:
- Manuscripts
- Grant from humanities organization to create a digitized collection of eight personal manuscripts
- Books and journals
- Out of print history book published online for classroom use
- One of a kind book from a distant library for researcher
- Rare books and journals preserved and made available to researchers world-wide
- Art work and high resolution images
- Visual arts library image collection made accessible online for teaching through ‘fair use' guidelines
- High resolution images for an academic research publication
- Images from a large art collection made available to distant user
- Photographs
- Large local photography negative collection converted and published in digital format
- Digitization of color slides
- Documents
- University documents organized in a repository for Higher Learning Commission
- Maps
- Enhanced accessibility of digitized maps
- 3-D objects
- Proof of concept for 3D objects used by a WMU department
Types of Customers and Collaborators:
- Researchers at WMU and around the country
- University departments at WMU
- Midsize public libraries
- Regional special interest groups
- Local governmental departments
- Small public universities
- Private colleges
- Local, regional and state universities
- Community groups and partners