Building a New Infrastructure for Digital Media: Northwestern University Library

Authors

M. Claire Stewart, Northwestern UniversityFollow
H. Frank Cervone, Northwestern UniversityFollow

ORCID IDs

M. Claire Stewart

H. Frank Cervone

Date of this Version

6-2003

Citation

Stewart, M. Claire, and H. Frank Cervone. (June 2003). Building a new infrastructure for digital media: Northwestern University Library. Information Technology and Libraries 22(2), 69–74.

Comments

Open access licensed: Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0

Abstract

The Northwestern University Library has been a pioneer in text and media digitization. From early efforts primarily focused on enhancing access to reserve material to current projects involving vast quantities of streaming media, in great part these projects have been the result of close collaboration between the library and other units on campus, particularly Academic Technologies. As the depth and breadth of digitization efforts have increased, so have the technological and organizational issues. This article examines the history of digitization efforts at Northwestern University as a context for exploring the emerging issues most libraries face as digitization enters a new era.