Duke Digital Collections

We are hiring!! Come join our amazing digitization team!

Digitization Specialist – Still Image | Duke University Libraries Produces digital surrogates of books, manuscripts, audio, and moving image material from Library and other University holdings. Creates images and surrogates according to deadlines and at specified levels of quality to meet Libraries’ goals for preserving collections and providing online resources...

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We are Hiring! - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog Duke University Libraries is recruiting a Digital Production Services Manager to direct the operations of our Digital Production Center, its staff (3 FTE plus student assistants), and associated digitization services. We are seeking someone experienced in leading digitization projects who is excited...

Our MSI Program was featured on Duke Today this week!!
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Imaging Renders Decayed Texts Visible Once More In the Harry Potter series, a tap of the wand and a whispered incantation transforms a blank roll of parchment into detailed map of Hogwarts castle.

Check out our new blog post about Women: the World Over lantern slides we just digitized!

Women: The World Over - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog An amazing collection of lantern slides depicting women from nations around the world. At first glance, the women in these portraits seem like other portraits of the time, generally nondescript portraits of people at some random moment in time. But upon closer inspection, and with the use of an acco...

Check out our new blog post about Women: the World Over lantern slides! https://blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2018/06/01/women-the-world-over/

Announcing our first Multispectral Imaging service:

Announcing Multispectral Imaging Service, version 1 - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog As regular Bitstreams readers know, a cross departmental team within Duke University Libraries has been exploring Multispectral Imaging and its potential to make Duke collections more accessible to researchers in the Duke scholarly community and beyond since 2015. [https://blogs.library.duke.edu/bit...

We are super excited about our new Digital Collections accessibility features and interactive transcripts - check em out!

Interactive Transcripts have Arrived! - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog Interactive Transcripts have Arrived! This week Duke Digital Collections added our first set of interactive transcripts to one of our newest digital collections: the Silent Vigil (1968) and Allen Building Takeover (1969) collection of audio recordings. This marks an exciting milestone in the accessi...

Check out our new blog post! Hugh Mangum photographs, Family and 100 years!

Hugh Mangum, Family and 100 years - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog What could me growing up in South West Virginia have to do with an itinerant photographer from Durham who was born in 1877? His name was Hugh Mangum and he had a knack for bringing out the personalities of his subjects when, at the time, most photographs depict stiff and stoic people similar to the....

Happy to see and read this article on William Gedney's photographs, one of our favorite Duke Digital Collections (though really they are all our favorites).

William Gedney Photographs and Writings The 5,000 item collection documents Gedney's work from the 1950s to 1989. Subjects include photographs of cross country road trips; rural New York; Manhattan; Brooklyn; rural Kentucky; Hippies in San Francisco; composers; gay rallies and demonstrations; St. Joseph's School for the Deaf; India; Engla...

We are hiring an intern - come work with us!! http://library.duke.edu/about/jobs/dcintern

Digital Collections Intern | Duke University Libraries Under the supervision of the Head of the Digital Collections Department and in collaboration with Digitization Specialists and other Library Departments, the Digital Collections Intern will work primarily to digitize, apply metadata, and do quality control of digital collections. This internship wil...

New developments in MSI at the Library… The beginning is always messy. https://blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2017/06/23/infrastructure-multispectral-imaging-library

Infrastructure and Multispectral Imaging in the Library - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog As we continue to work on our “standard” full color digitization projects such as Section A and the William Gedney Photograph Collection, both of which are multiyear projects, we are still hard at work with a variety of things related to Multispectral Imaging (MSI). We have been writing documentati...

Our newest digital collection, American Slavery Documents is now online: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/americanslaverydocs

American Slavery Documents - Duke Libraries