Digital Library Services

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The University of Kentucky Libraries Digital Library Services Department identifies and implements digital library initiatives that support teaching and research and makes unique holdings available to the world. As a part of its mission, the Digital Library Services Department manages and develops the Kentuckiana Digital Library, an online archive of historically significant material documenting the history and heritage of Kentucky. In this role, the Digital Library Services Department manages the Kentuckiana Digital Library's systems infrastructure and performs digital conversion of selected historical resources.

Digital Lab:

The Digital Lab is located in the Margaret I. King Building in room 110. The Lab is currently equipped with specialized hardware and software for producing digital library content.

Mailing Address:

Digital Library Services
110 Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039

Eric Weig, Director

Contact the Digital Lab by phone at (859) 257-3329. Send email using dls-ls@lsv.uky.edu. View faculty and staff contact information.

Sites

Explore UK
Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (PaperVault)
Kentucky National Digital Newspaper Program
Kentuckiana Digital Library Development Site
Daily Racing Form Historical Archive
Kyleidoscope
http://libraries.uky.edu
http://exhibits.uky.edu/

Tools

OHMS Oral History Metadata Syncronizer
PaperVault

Digitization Services

To request digitization services for microfilm or original material, please contact the digital lab using the email or phone number listed under our contact information.

Digitization Rates

35mm/16mm Microfilm
$1.05 per scan

Items up to 24 x 30 inches in size
$1.05 per scan

Items larger than 24 x 30 inches in size
$6.30 per scan

Positive microfilm duplication
$33.55 per roll

Negative microfilm duplication
$56.35 per roll

Access the Microfilm Ordering Database.

Digital Curation

The preservation of digital assets created by the University of Kentucky Libraries is essential to maintaining appropriate access to the unique library holdings now and into the future. A simple definition of digital preservation is the long-term maintenance of a file sufficient to reproduce a facsimile of the original document and for the continued accessibility of the document through time and changing technology. We have made a commitment to employing intelligent approaches to preserving our digital content through digital curation, the process of establishing and developing long-term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, and historians, and scholars generally. Within the digital curation model, we have established an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) repository developed utilizing the University of California’s Micro Services model. With its modular approach and reliance on a file system surrounded by digital curation services, we believe that the Micro Services model allows us to remain agile with the changing tide of digital technologies while also keeping our data accessible through both mediated and direct unmediated access via the file system store.

National Grants

2002

IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) National Leadership Grant/Digitization or Preservation Category for 2002. The grant project was entitled Beyond the Shelf: Serving Historic Kentuckiana Through Virtual Access. This grant was a cooperative endeavor between the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Virtual Library and established 2-year funding to digitize 1,000 (approx. 225,000 pages) Kentucky brittle books from preservation microfilm.

2005

NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) We the People grant, in conjunction with the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center. The grant was submitted in 2004 and awarded in March of 2005. The grant resulted in archival processing and the production of machine readable finding aids for significant Appalachian archival collections housed at the University of Kentucky.

NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) in conjunction with the Library of Congress’s National Digital Newspaper Program Test Bed America’s Chronicle. Grant submitted in 2004 and awarded in June of 2005. This grant continued in two year increments up through 2012.

2011

IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) awarded the University of Kentucky Libraries a National Leadership Grant for 2011 to further develop their Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), an open source system that inexpensively and efficiently enhances access to oral histories online. OHMS connects users from textual search terms to the corresponding moment in the online interview.

Resources such as digital images, digital audio and electronic texts are made available by the Kentuckiana Digital Library and other Digital Programs projects for use in research, instruction or private study only. These materials can never be used for commercial purposes without explicit, prior written permission from the copyright owner.

Many items offered by the Kentuckiana Digital Library and other Digital Programs projects may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Some items may have restrictions imposed by the copyright holder or the repository owning the physical items. The holding repositories have made best efforts to identify the copyright status for online items. This information is offered as a service to the general public in determining the proper use of an item and is found in collection finding aids and/or upon inquiry to the holding repository. However, it is always the user's responsibility to determine copyright restrictions and obtain the permission of the copyright holder.

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