DLSS is the information technology production arm of Stanford University Libraries
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16 Mar 2022
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/s…
ALT Photo of a digitized object, Street and Smith’s 1894 “New York Weekly.”
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10 Dec 2021
A warm welcome to @laurensx, who will be joining our team next month! Read more about her role here:
10 Dec 2021
Lauren Sorensen is joining us as a new staff member of Digital Library Systems & Services. It’s auspicious to make this announcement today, Human Rights Day; Lauren will be serving as the Digital Projects & Data Manager for the Virtual Tribunals program.
library.stanford.edu/blogs/d…
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22 Oct 2020
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!
22 Oct 2020
Pandemic pivot: Digitization services for course reserves
Since July 21, the Course E-Reserves Working Group has met weekly to formulate a plan to digitize portions of or entire works requested for course reserves.
library.stanford.edu/blogs/d…
ALT screenshot: JIRA tickets queue
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20 Oct 2020
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
ALT Images of a deep gutter, center-region, of a rare book from Stanford Libraries' collection.
ALT Images of a deep gutter, center-region, of a rare book from Stanford Libraries' collection.
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8 Jul 2020
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:
ALT Meet the Digital Production Group lab staff. Intro image for series profiling lab staff.
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8 Jul 2020
11/12 Digital production group in-labs and at home: Astrid J. Smith and Linda Lam.
ALT Image of Astrid J. Smith and Linda Lam and their projects.
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8 Jul 2020
12/12 Digital production group in-labs and at home: Tony Calavano and Wayne Vanderkuil.
ALT Image of Tony Calavano and Wayne Vanderkuil.
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22 Jun 2020
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
ALT Screenshot of Spotlight at Stanford exhibits page with an arrow pointing to the new "Social Justice" tag button.
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12 May 2020
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
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27 Apr 2020
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-BsxW… (@StanfordSpec has acquired over 450 photographs)
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Watch the race to be the largest print centre of early modern Europe!
In today's blog, @gj_kemp charts how the centres of book production shifted over time.
wp.me/p9AJ9N-XD
#bookhistory #digitalhumanities #datavisualization #datavisualisation
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