Stanford Digital Lib

Over the last year, the Digital Production Group, along with the Conservation and Metadata units, have engaged in a multi-institutional project to increase access to dime novels and story papers, digitizing over 700 from the library’s holdings! 📰 See: library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford…

A warm welcome to @laurensx, who will be joining our team next month! Read more about her role here:

@bla222 It’s our pleasure!

Digitizing course reserves materials has been our main activity in the Digital Production Group labs (and at home) these past few months. As you can read in this post, it was truly a joint effort. 📚 📖 💻 We are proud of our collective work in support of teaching and learning!

Gutter challenges in the digitization lab the past week or so - it will be worth it, we promise! With type extending deep into the chasm, lighting and focus are extra tricky but we adjust the setup accordingly and do what we can. More info on the volume to come! #digitization

12/12 Digital production group in-labs and at home: Tony Calavano and Wayne Vanderkuil.

11/12 Digital production group in-labs and at home: Astrid J. Smith and Linda Lam.

1/12 As the daily work of the Digital Production Group is primarily hands-on in the labs, making the switch to working from home while sheltering-in-place has taken patience, flexibility, & creativity. In this series, staff members Laura & Tati take over to share a peek at both:

Our Spotlight at Stanford exhibits team has added a new "Social justice" tag to the exhibits page in an effort to elevate and amplify marginalized voices. Thank you to the team, to the Access Team, and @cathyaster for bringing this idea to fruition. See: exhibits.stanford.edu

Our colleague, rare books curator Ben Albritton, called attention to the hidden labor in digitization & discovery in his CESTA talk on “Manuscript Fragments in the Stanford Collections: Digital Afterlives” today. We feel seen! @bla222 @cesta_stanford @StanfordSpec

Mark Ruwedel: 72 and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles - voiceover interview between Mark Ruwedel and his partner Corrine Corry youtube.com/watch?v=AWN-Bs… (@StanfordSpec has acquired over 450 photographs)