DIGITAL IMAGING SERVICES

The Digital Imaging Lab (DIL) provides professional quality digital copies of Library or patron-owned original material to UC Berkeley libraries, professors, researchers, students, and patrons.

PRICE SHEET

Digitally produced photographic prints from existing master files are available by special arrangement.

Most materials will be scanned at 400-600 ppi. For example, an 8 x 10 photograph would likely be scanned at 600 ppi., as a 24-bit TIFF, RGB formatted file with a size of approximately 100 MB.

To order a copy of an image file from one of our existing master files, please contact the library holding the originals.  For a listing of all UC Berkeley libraries and their duplication policies, prices and procedures, please select the library of choice from the UC Berkeley Library website.

TAX

The 8.75% California sales tax is levied on all LPS orders except: those shipped to an address outside of California, those paid by IOC or UC account, and those accompanied by a state-issued resale number.

Shipment charges to a patron's shipping account or via Campus Mail are subject to the $3.00 minimum charge.

PLACING AN ORDER

• Normal work turnaround is 15 business days from receipt of the order by DIL, though duplication jobs can be completed more quickly.
  
• Orders for duplication of client-supplied or library materials can be made by appointment, available Monday - Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. Please call 642-4665 to schedule appointments.
  
• Orders for duplication of library materials in Doe/Moffitt Libraries need to be placed through Interlibrary Borrowing Services; please see instructions and policies for UC and UC Berkeley patrons and those for non-UC patrons. For materials in the branch libraries please contact the library holding the materials.
  
• Any order for the duplication of non-circulating materials must be placed with the library holding these materials and not Library Photographic Services. For example, to place an order with Bancroft Library contact Bancroft, Reference and Access Services.
  
• For a listing of all UC Berkeley libraries and their duplication policies, prices and procedures, please select the library of choice from the University Libraries website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/

PAYMENT

All payments must be arranged at the time an order is placed. Acceptable forms of payment include cash (for onsite orders), check (payable to U.C. Regents), credit card, interdepartmental or intercampus charge form (IOC), printed purchase order from an established business or institution.

DELIVERY

Completed orders may be picked up at the LPS Public Service Desk during business hours.  Orders to be shipped are sent via UPS, FedEx, or US Mail.

Note: FedEx will not deliver to Post Office Boxes, nor will UPS unless a daytime phone number is listed on the mailing label.  We suggest that you provide a street address for shipping.

PROJECTS AND LINKS

DIL has participated in a variety of Web-based projects, beginning with the California Heritage Project in 1995. All of the large projects with which DIL is involved require the cooperation of project managers, computer programmers, selectors, curators, and photographers, among others.  For more information on planning an imaging project, we recommend "Planning an Imaging Project" by Linda Serenson Colet and published by the Council on Library and Information Resources.

The California Heritage Collection: an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected from over 160 individual collections, this unique resource highlights the rich themes of California's history.

Digital Scriptorium: a joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings.

The Advanced Papyrological Information System: The Tebtunis Papyri consist of documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, was financed for the University of California by Phoebe Apperson Hearst. The APIS project constitutes the efforts of several universities to integrate in a virtual library the holdings from their collections through digital images and detailed catalog records that provide information pertaining to the external and the internal characteristics of each papyrus, corrections to previously published papyri, and republications.

Free Speech Movement: Student Protest – U.C. Berkeley 1964-1965: A cooperative project between the Bancroft Library and the Free Speech Movement Archive, with funding provided by Stephen M. Silberstein. The University of California Berkeley Library has begun an ambitious program to document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement – a legacy that can still be traced in political activism and educational reform throughout the country. The project, in operation since July l998, is establishing a comprehensive data base from which text and images of original documents can be made available via the World Wide Web.

Museums and Online Archive of California: a prototype virtual museum archive that integrates standardized finding aids for museum and library special collections into a single source, thus providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California. Documents chosen for digital capture include framed artwork from the Bancroft collection.

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: a cooperative project involving nine OAC participants: UC Berkeley, UCLA, the Japanese American National Museum, California State Universities at Fullerton and Sonoma, the University of the Pacific, the University of Southern California, the California Historical Society, and the California State Archives. Plans include digitizing text, visual material and audio content drawn from oral histories, plus designing OAC finding aids to navigate the material. Documents chosen for digital capture include letters, official documents, photographs, and ephemera from camps located in and around California.

Chinese in California: a project chronicling the history and culture of Chinese Californians. Documents chosen for digital capture include photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, and rare issues of the WASP from Bancroft’s collection.

Cased Photographs Digital Archives: a project to preserve and scan daguerreotypes, albumen prints, and tintypes, at various stages of their treatment. Originals documented for this project came from the Bancroft Library and the California State Library.

STAFF:

, Unit Head

Phone: (510) 642-3886

LOCATION, SERVICE BY APPOINTMENT

Library Photographic Services
20 Doe Library
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-3885
Fax: (510) 642-4664
e-mail: lpsdesk@lib.berkeley.edu

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