The Digital Production Group (DPG) produces high quality digital images of items in Stanford Libraries' collections for faculty, staff, and curatorial needs. We manage and operate four digitization labs staffed by highly skilled professional imaging specialists and student assistants. Our labs are capable of converting a wide variety of traditional library materials to digital formats, including printed books, journals, fine art, photographic prints and negatives, maps, manuscripts, and more.
Digital Production Group
The BC100 is used for manual book scanning. It can handle most rare and fragile bound volumes.
Rig 1 - for high res capture of a wide range of material types
Rig 2 - the big rig for high res images of maps and large flat items
Rig 3 - integrated with Conservation and Special Collections workflows
The DL1 scanner (AKA "the robot") - scans bound volumes automatically up to 600 pages per hour.
Large format scanner - for high-speed, research-quality scans of maps, posters, blueprints, etc.
3D Imaging
To support teaching in the classroom on subjects involving unique or fragile cultural objects, 3D imaging expands opportunities for students to study these materials and explore new forms of presentation.
We can scan 3D objects in our lab located in Green Library or in the classroom with our mobile set-up. After scanning, we process and deliver the object scans as renderable files. We can also accession 3D models into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) for preservation and make them discoverable in SearchWorks.
