Digital Library Production Service (DLPS)

We contribute in a variety of ways to the highly collaborative effort of building digital libraries. Digital collections are the most publicly visible product of our work.

Explore the Library's Digital Collections:  

• U-M Library Digital Collections: Delve into over 260 collections of images, texts, and more from libraries and museums across campus and the region.

• Deep Blue: Discover the output of U-M’s rich intellectual community in the institutional repository or make contributions of your own.

• HathiTrust: Search the full text of over 11 million digitized items including more than 4.5 million books scanned at U-M.

• Mirlyn & Search Tools: The library’s catalog and website help you find digital collections as well.

• Online Exhibits: Tour the highlights of library collections via curated online exhibits.

Services:

Whether you need our services or just want advice, we can point you in the right direction or guide you along the way; our digitization project workflow is your place to start if you want to:

• Digitize books and other materials: Our Digital Conversion Unit offers in-house and outsourced, preservation-quality digitization services and expertise; see our work in HathiTrust or find out about the Michigan Digitization Project.

• Put a collection online: We channel digital content, including books and images, into our repositories to provide access and ensure stability and longevity; see U-M Library Digital Collections for examples.

We also:

• Develop digital library software: We build, with others, stable, scalable, sustainable systems to serve the library and its partnerships; examples are HathiTrust, DLXS, and Deep Blue.

• Create digital preservation solutions: We are actively engaged in the process of defining, adopting, and carrying out best practices; we contributed to the definition of, for instance, HathiTrust’s Digital Preservation Policy.

• Encode texts: We have a great deal of expertise which we are happy to share; the Text Creation Partnership and Making of America are great examples of our work in this area.

• Support digital video: We help to support the use of the campus-wide MiVideo solution.

Send comments and questions to DLPS Help.