Cory Lampert (Libraries) has received an $80,685 Library Services and Technology Grant to support a large-scale digitization project. The project, “Building the Pipelines: Large-Scale Digitization Models for Nevada Cultural Heritage,” will build upon the University Libraries’ existing efforts to ramp up digitization capacity across the state of Nevada.
University Libraries has partnered with the Las Vegas Water District to prioritize water-related manuscript collections for large-scale digitization practice, particularly the Las Vegas Land and Water company records. Once completed, the grant will provide access to 10,000 new, high-research value digital objects, as well as offering several new recommendations for handling the challenges of archival collection digitization at large scale.
These recommendations will be shared at the second Nevada Statewide Digitization Workshop, to be hosted next spring at UNLV. The event will offer a venue to share new lessons learned while following up with other state cultural heritage organizations to discuss progress on digitization plans made at the 2017 workshop. More information about University Libraries Digital Collections is available online.
