Digitization
The Digitization Centre at the University of Manitoba Libraries aims to enhance access to our valuable collections. By digitizing manuscripts, documents, photographs, scholarly works, and other records, we strive to support research, education, and community engagement, and advance learning at the University of Manitoba by creating digital collections that can be shared and accessed more broadly with diverse communities.
Selection criteria
Digitization projects are guided by the vision and values of the University of Manitoba Libraries, and selected and prioritized based on the following crtieria:
- Feasibility: The Digitization Centre has the resources (staffing, funding, equipment) needed to fulfil the project.
- Value: The content aligns with the University's vision, mission, and core values, has educational, cultural and/or historical significance, and includes unique content that is unavailable elsewhere.
- Access: The digitization of the content would support open and enhanced access to collections and remove barriers to accessibility.
- Risk: There are no ethical or legal considerations such as copyright, IP, cultural protocols, or other restrictions that limit digitization, and the materials can be safely digitized without causing damage to the original records.
Contact us
If you have a digitization project or request, or have general questions about digitization, please contact the Libraries' Digitization Centre.