Digitization services



Stanford University Libraries provides high quality digitization services for materials in a wide variety of formats from across the library collections or from other cultural heritage institutions. Highly trained staff combine state-of-the-art digitization equipment with best practices to provide support for collection-level digitization projects, systematic digitization, as well as on-demand requests by Stanford researchers and other library patrons.

Featured collections

R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller Collection


Fuller's versatile career as an architect, lecturer, mathematician, writer, and social critic is documented extensively.

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Riverwalk Jazz Collection

Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.

Steve Jobs, 1986

Douglas Menuez Photography Collection

Photojournalism, fine art documentary work, and commercial photography capture the people and places of an emerging Silicon Valley.

Jim McRae and KZSU Project South volunteers, 1965

KZSU Project South Interviews

Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.

Eadweard Muybridge Photographs

This collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs.

Glen McLaughlin Map Collection: California as an Island

This collection of 17th and 18th century maps depict California as an island.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Preventing Genocide

This collection from Dr. David A. Hamburg includes the documentary, Preventing Genocide, and videotaped interviews with world leaders in the prevention of mass violence.

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The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.