The BudigOne Digital Workspace supports KU faculty and graduate students in the development of digital projects for teaching and research. Through this workspace, users are offered specialized instruction, staff expertise and access to equipment necessary for creating and editing digital images, sound, video, and text. Digital content created in BudigOne can be integrated into appropriate web, course-delivery, and digital library systems, stored in appropriate repositories and preserved for use over long periods of time.
KU Digital Initiatives is responsible for designing and implementing digital services needed to create, display, discover, store, and preserve scholarly information in a digital format. Through standards-based technology, campus-wide collaboration, and external partnerships, the DI program is helping to build a rich set of digital tools and resources that can be accessed through an integrated digital library system.
GIS and Data Services provide workspace for KU students, staff and faculty, as well as one-on-one assistance with numeric, geospatial, statistical and related data. The Lab, located on level one of Anschutz Library, supports GIS and statistics-related class work, teaching and research at KU.
The KU Libraries has information resources from a number of government and quasi-government organizations. Materials from these and other organizations may be available in print, microfiche or microfilm, computerized media such as CD-ROM or DVD, and via the Internet.
Information Analysis and Design supports data creation, analysis, access, dissemination, stewardship and management of University scholarly and administrative information in conjunction with other University partners. We plan and design information services and systems in accordance with appropriate information, technical or service architectures, models, frameworks, and standards in response to changing customer requirements, evolving technologies, tool sets, and emerging best practices.
Creation of a system of scholarly communication that fully meets the needs of current and future researchers, teachers, and students requires the active cooperation of faculty, librarians, and publishers. We encourage the university community to learn with us about these issues.
The Thomas R. Smith Map Collection is among the largest academic map collections in the United States. It was founded by the late Professor Thomas R. Smith of the Department of Geography. The map collection includes over 440,000 paper maps and air photographs. The KU Libraries have extensive holdings of maps and digital data on CD-ROMs, primarily from government agencies but also from other sources.
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