SirsiDynix: Digital Archive

Today people are more accustomed than ever to full and easy access to information. More and more, that means content that is part of the growing number of digital collections built by libraries. Whether it's today's video clip or photograph or a century-old diary or newspaper, all of which are often delicate and irreplaceable, your library is responsible for preserving these precious resources for generations to come. So what do you do?

By putting photos, artwork, historical documents, video files, and other important resources into digital format, then organizing them effectively, you can make these items available to anyone with a Web browser. At any time, from anywhere – with no fear of damage. With the technologies available to scan, organize, and manage digital media archives, your institution can make valuable items, now available in digital form, available to library users, researchers, or anyone.

SirsiDynix Digital Library assists libraries in building digital archives in tandem with SirsiDynix integrated library systems.

SirsiDynix Digital Library

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SirsiDynix Digital Library is a highly effective digital archiving system, a digital document repository, and a cadre of applications for building, managing, and integrating digital archives. Digital Library combines a suite of high-volume digital capture and production tools with a sophisticated Web-based retrieval engine.

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Digital Library takes library users, researchers, and others far beyond what they would ever expect to find using a Web-based information retrieval tool. A digital content creation and management solution, SirsiDynix Digital Library provides access to the digital collection that you create, manage, and store using the software, hardware, and services included with this solution. This digital collection can include images of anything – rare handwritten letters, fragile newspaper clippings, genuine artifacts, historical pictures and documents, and other non-copyrighted materials. With Digital Library and a SirsiDynix portal solution, you make images of these items available to anyone in the world.

Information seekers select and search your digital collection in the same way they select and search any other database. Digital Library also allows students to search the full text of digital documents, right from the portal. The Digital Library search engine is able to match the content of digital documents to the student's own words, even if the student has entered an imprecise term. Digital Library also compensates for any problems of character recognition in the digital content due to scanning errors.