05/20/2026
Behind the scenes of our NHPRC grant project to digitize the records of Alabama’s coal and iron labor history!
Our Digital Services team utilizes customized, heavy duty shipping containers and specialty packing supplies to ensure that our collections materials are protected and stabilized during transport. Our project team has also devised a schema for assigning unique identifiers to digitized materials. This allows for parity between the digital objects and their physical counterparts within each collection. Our overarching goal for Special Collections digitization is to facilitate an end user experience that closely resembles one a researcher might have interacting with the physical records in their original context.
An update on our project progress: We have received the first batch of digitized materials from our vendor, and the content is undergoing final digitization pipeline steps prior to upload to our digital collections management system, CONTENTdm. This project is made possible by generous funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
