Digitization

Creating unique digital collections of value to University of Calgary researchers and Canadians

Digitization Projects

Do you have materials that would make a unique digital collection that would offer unique opportunities at UCalgary for access, research or education? We accept digitization proposals year-round.

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On-demand Digitization

We support small-scale on-demand digitization requests of University of Calgary held items for personal or academic use. For book-chapter or article-level scanning of copyrighted materials, please request through Document Delivery or local Inter-Library Loan service. Please note: There may be restrictions in this service due to COVID-19 service restrictions.

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Digital Scholarship Class Projects

We support faculty and students with digitization and digital collection class projects. We can help you design a digitization class project, teach students about digital scholarship and digital scholarship platforms and support sharing of class projects.

Research guide

Digital Collections

We build digital collections with support from library staff, faculty, students and community partners.

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Hardware

Panasonic KV-S4085C: Text documents

Epson Expression 12000XL | Epson Expression 10000XL: Text documents, newspapers, magazines, delicate materials, photographs, books, oversize items

Nikon Super Coolscan 8000: Microform, slides

Colortrac 42C: Large format items

Kaiser copystand and Nikon D850 I Kaiser copystand and Nikon D750: Magazines, Delicate materials, photographs, books, oversize items, microform, slides