Are you interested in proposing a digital project for special collections in the library? 

If you are a librarian or collection manager at the Library, contact Angela Waarala, the Digital Collections Project Manager, if you are interested in discussing or proposing a project. Quarterly meetings with Special Collections libraries are used to plan project and propose projects and priorities. There are several departments in library involved in implementing a digital project.  

If you are a located elsewhere on campus, contact the holding library of the material. Representatives from various departments will attend meetings to plan and implement the project.

• Illinois History and Lincoln Collections - ihlc@library.illinois.edu
• Map Library - charts@library.illinois.edu
• Rare Book & Manuscript Library – askacurator@library.illinois.edu
• University of Illinois Archives – illiarch@illinois.edu

For more information about departments contributing to digital projects in the library, visit the links below.

• Preservation 
• Conservation 
• Acquisitions & Cataloging Services
• IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

Step by Step Overview - Digital Project Workflow

This step by step guide will help you understand the digitization workflow in our library.

Table of Contents

• Project Proposal
• Identify Stakeholders
• Project Meeting and Project Plan
• Content Examples
• Metadata for Digital Collections
• Conservation Review 
• Scope and Content Examples
• Digitization – Capture, Process, Quality Control and Ingest
• Updating Stakeholders and Progress Meetings
• Final Project Meeting