Digitizing Archives and Manuscript Collections

"The University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center has started a program to digitize selected archives and manuscript collections. The digital images are being made available via the online finding aid for each collection. This will recreate for the online user the experience of a researcher encountering the original materials in the SCRC Reading Room, with documents displayed as they are housed in each folder, and with description of the contents in the form of folder headings. Individual, high-resolution images of each page will be permanently preserved in the Library's digital repository, and can be made available for publication or other research needs. Digitization efforts are currently focused on materials in the public domain, or those for which the University of Chicago holds copyright...."