Digital Library Development Center

The Digital Library Development Center (DLDC) collaborates with University of Chicago Library staff, University of Chicago faculty, and other groups on campus to build digital collections, to enable their discovery, and to ensure the persistence and usability of the library's digital collections over time.

Core activities include building UChicagoNode in partnership with the OCHRE (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment) Data Service designing, building, and maintaining the Library Digital Repository, installing and supporting both open-source and commercial systems that provide access to information resources, including the SFX link resolver, the Luna software environment for image collections, and the VuFind library catalog software, and securely administering the computers underlying the preceding.

The DLDC collaborates with other groups in the library and on campus. These include:

• Digitization
• Web & Discovery Services
• The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
• The ARTFL Project

To visit the DLDC, once on the 2nd floor of The Joseph Regenstein Library, turn right, and walk past the bank of elevators and the glassed-in office on the right (Room 216) until you see the door to Room 220 directly ahead of you. The 2nd floor map will help guide you to our offices. Once inside Room 220, signs and maps will orient you within the space.