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WebSite: http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu

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DSS develops, manages, and publishes digital content from curatorial collections, in support of academic programs, organizes conversion and ingest capabilities, facilitates awareness and coordinates instruction in scholarly use and development of digital Currently, there are 624,665 total items in UFDC, which make up 165,268 different titles. In all, there are over 14 million pages in UFDC. The Digital Support Services (DSS)departmentsupports the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), providing digital collections created from Library collection materials. Withrare children s literature books, unique manuscripts and letters,antique maps,museum objects,herbarium specimens, photographs,oral histories,architectural drawings, recordings of speeches and songs, videos of performances, and more,UFDCoffers many resources for research and discovery from aroundthe world. Over two hundred versions of Robinson Crusoe; over a million pages of Florida and Caribbean newspapers; and over 6,000photographs from the University of Florida Archivesare significant in that they are co-located, have a browse capability, and are cross-referenced and searchable sets. TheUFDCgrows bymore than one million pages a year.DSS also serves as the technical hostfor and partners withthe Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Librarycollection (both are international collaborations), the statewide Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and many other collaborative and UF-based digital collections such as Celebrating Cubaand the UF Institutional Repository.The largest and most utilized collections are:In addition to supporting existing collections and materials in UFDC, DSS is also a digitization facility. It is the primary contributor to all of the collections in and hosted by UFDC, adding more unique materials regularly. The Digital Services Department also supports collaborative and innovative projects.SobekCMprovides the core infrastructure powering the collections.SobekCMis the internally designed, hosted, and supportedtechnologythat powers all aspects of the digital collections, including content management and collection management. The Digital Support Services department is among the largest digitization facilities in the southeastern United States. The department is the hosting and technical partner for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library, two collaborative digital libraries partnering Florida and Caribbean cultural and scientific institutions. Past projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Department of Education; National Historical Publications and Records Commission; the Institute for Museum and Library Services; Florida s LSTA program; and private endowments.

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