Digital Library Center – New Equipment!

It’s been a bustling year at the Digital Library Center, and we’re excited to share some recent upgrades to our digitization toolkit. The DLC has welcomed three new pieces of equipment, promising improved capacity, image quality, and speed. iXH Camera System In 2023 we seized the opportunity to upgrade our aging IQ180 overhead camera system

“You Should Just Digitize It All”

If you are ever to meet a digital archivist someday, and for some reason want to get under their skin, proceed to ask them this one question: “You’re just going to digitize all the books right?” When their eye starts twitching, you’ll know you hit your mark. It is becoming a tradition of mine as

Digitizing the Leon County School Board Minutes

Through a community partnership with the Leon County School District office, Florida State University is digitizing and providing public access to the district’s collection of School Board Minutes which record the history of the school board from 1877 to present. The FSU Digital Library Center has been hard at work digitizing these minutes, which come

New Digital Collection – Ulysses B. Roach Diaries

The Digital Library Center has recently digitized a set of diaries and farm accounts from Ulysses B. Roach, a farmer and plantation owner in Jefferson County, Florida. The diaries give us a detailed glimpse into the day-to-day life of Roach, who meticulously documented the weather and the quality of his crops. Ulysses B. Roach wrote

17th Century Contracts: A Glimpse Into Our New Collection

Object FSU_MSS_1948-003_B001_F001 via Florida State University. As a digital library intern for the past two semesters with Special Collections, I have been working on digitizing the 17th-20th Century Correspondence & Documents collection. To celebrate the approach of the end of this project and the midpoint of this semester, I wanted to highlight the first item

Parchment & Pajamas: Virtually Visiting Special Collections & Archives

Do you want to see an artists’ book in motion, or an intense zoom on the remains of a wax seal?

Digitizing Local History

One of my favorite programs I oversee is our Community Digitization Partnerships. These partnerships allow me to work with local organizations in the North Florida area to bring their materials online via DigiNole: FSU’s Digital Repository. We often work with non-traditional organizations like schools and churches, bringing collections online that would otherwise be unknown to

Hymn To the… Purple and Gold?

Happy College Colors Day! To celebrate, we wanted to share an interesting bit of our university’s history with you. Though Florida State University is recognized by its garnet and gold school colors, FSU’s predecessor institutions went through several color changes before settling on the iconic combination that we are so familiar with today.  The story

State of the FSU Digital Library

Every year, about this time of year, I give an update on all the things that happened with the digital library last year. As you can imagine, the FSU Digital Library in DigiNole: FSU’s Digital Repository experienced some changes in how we do business last year. There were stretches of time where we weren’t adding

Change is coming to the digital library!

Happy New Year! A bit late but this is my first post of the year and it is to share happy news. Later this year, FSU Libraries will be migrating our digital library to a new platform. This spring will be a lot of work in getting the new platform up and running, migrating all