Digital Collections at St. Lawrence University

As this initiative develops, we will be building a “knowledgebase” of information that we hope will assist faculty, staff and students in their understanding of digital collections management at St. Lawrence.

DSpace is a groundbreaking digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes an organization’s research data. DSpace is jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs. St. Lawrence is considering joining the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (LASR) which currently utilizes the DSpace software platform.

The process of storing, retrieving and distributing digital assets (files), such as photographs, datasets, documents, and multimedia files in a centralized and systematically organized system, allowing for the quick and efficient storage, retrieval, and reuse of the digital files.

CONTENTdm is a digital collection management package that can handle all types of digital documents. St. Lawrence University currently uses CONTENTdm for the management of several collections.