Dartmouth Digital Library Initiatives

The Dartmouth Digital Library Program promotes innovative research and teaching through the digitization of selected Library holdings and the open access publication of new digital scholarship. The Program responds to increasing demand for global access to our collections, and is aligned with our mission to foster intellectual growth by supporting excellence and innovation in education and research, and with our vision of "inspiring ideas for personal transformation and global impact."

The Dartmouth Digital Library Program is comprised of the following services, as a complement to our purchasing of ebooks, electronic journals, and databases.

Digital Collections

Dartmouth College Library provides digital versions of its rich collections and archives to advance teaching, learning, and to celebrate the Dartmouth Experience. This is a strategic initiative, aimed at using our production, preservation, and metadata expertise to create digital copies of items that provide online access to in-demand materials. Drawing on Special Collections, College Archives, and the general library collections, we are working to produce and deliver books, manuscripts, sound files, maps, films, and photographic collections in a digital library setting.

We are also keen to promote and share Dartmouth generated scholarship with as wide an audience as possible. To this end we are currently seeking permission from authors to digitize all the Dartmouth Ph.D dissertations in our collection in order to share them on the web. We are exploring the policies and infrastructure needed to allow large-scale, open-access digital delivery of published faculty scholarship, when the faculty member wishes to do so.

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Digital Publishing

Dartmouth College Library helps faculty to publish and support original scholarly content in a digital environment. Several innovative online journals have been created and edited at Dartmouth during this time, and our first scholarly monograph -- by Dartmouth Emeritus Professor of Classics, William Scott -- joined them in 2010.

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Digital Exhibits

Dartmouth College Library mounts selected exhibits online. Each year, Dartmouth's library buildings play host to multiple exhibits, drawing on its collections, programs such as the Book Arts Workshop, and the expertise of its staff. 

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