The mission of the Digital Collections Center of the Green Library is to build online collections of enduring value for university and global users by identifying, digitizing, and preserving information resources of scholarly, educational, and civic interest.

On the institutional level, the Digital Collections Center aligns its activities to Florida International University's six strategic themes: 1) International; 2) Environmental; 3) Florida and Local Economic Development; 4) Health; 5) Arts, Culture, and Diversity; and 6) Learning Opportunities.

The DCC currently focuses on the following programs that develop and foster scholarship, education, lifelong learning, as well as creativity and civic engagement on institutional, regional, and global levels:

• Everglades Information Network & Digital Library
• Florida Heritage Collection
• Ephemeral Cities
• Miami Metropolitan Archive, including the Coral Gables Memory project
• The Wolfsonian Museum Collection
  Black Miami Collection (forthcoming)
• Milemarkers: Linking Keys History
• FIU Digital Commons (faculty research, working papers, creative products, and more)
• Digital Library Internship Program
• South Florida Oral History Consortium
• Scholarly Communications Initiative, including participation in the Copyright Advisory Network of the American Library Association

The Digital Collections Center has developed a well-equipped production lab capable of converting a wide range of source materials: bound books and other printed documents, map sheets, photographs, ephemera, slide films and transparencies, and three-dimensional artifacts and realia. Digitization equipment includes two Epson flatbed scanners, one Bookeye planetary scanner, a high-resolution Kodak digital camera, Nikon slide/film scanner, and 2 high-speed duplex scanners with automatic document feeders. Additionally, the Center is outfitted with state-of-the-art PC and Apple workstations and software to ensure the highest quality image processing, editing, quality control and high-capacity storage and transfer of large digital files.

Our highly trained, creative and nimble team possesses expertise in the areas of digital capture and conversion; image editing and manipulation; descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata creation; electronic publishing; rights management and copyright; digital audio and more! Please feel free to e-mail the Center Head for a consultation.

Gail Clement		University Librarian; Head, DCC		305/348-6708		clementg@fiu.edu
Sonia Olivella		Metadata Specialist		305/348-6932		olivella@fiu.edu
Jamie Rogers		Digital Archivist		305/348-6932		rogersj@fiu.edu
Andrea Benitez		Digital Imaging Specialist		305/348-6932		andrea.benitez@fiu.edu
Manthan Patel		Digital Imaging Specialist		305/348-6932		mpate004@fiu.edu