Fifteen years ago today, on October 30, 2008, the first item added to Z. Smith Reynolds Library’s Digital Collections was an autographed note signed by César Franck, the renowned composer, within the Joseph E. Smith Music Manuscript Collection. This historic addition marked the beginning of our ever-growing digital collections that now encompasses a wide range of materials, from rare manuscripts and photographs to recordings and oral histories.
Since 2008, our collections have significantly grown. Today, we provide access to over 245,000 items to students, faculty, staff, and the general public, within 108 collections.
The growth of our digital collections is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our student workers who complete the majority of the digitization in our lab.
I am excited to see how our Digital Collections continue to grow and evolve in the years to come!
8 Comments on ‘15 Years of Digital Collections’
This is wonderful, Melde. Digital Collections provide a core service and your team has done an impressive work! Congratulations!
Congratulations Melde- these collections are so valuable for Wake Forest and our patrons and scholars who use this valuable resource. Great!
Thanks Mel, to you and your student team, for helping making SCA collections more readily available for researchers!
What a landmark! You and the student staff that you manage have done so much to make collections accessible over the years, awesome work!
Hooray for fifteen years and thanks for keeping it growing!
How exciting! What a milestone! Thanks for this!
Happy Birthday, Digital Collections! And great work, Mel and digitization lab team. I’ve learned a lot from perusing the awesome university photo collections.
We’ve come a long way! Thanks for sharing this, Mel!