The Strategic Digitization Program's selection committee has supported funding the following projects. Digital Library Services staff are currently working with the project sponsors on establishing a timeline for digitization.

In-progress

• Music Library Historical Hymnal and Tune Book Collection
  This project will digitize the entire pre-1923 collection of historic hymnals and tune books.
  Department: Music Library
  Project Sponsor: Tim Maloney
   
• William S. Cooper papers
  This project will digitize the complete personal and professional papers and research data of William Skinner Cooper, faculty member in the Department of Botany.
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
   
• Donald B. Lawrence papers
  This project will digitize the complete personal and professional papers and research data of Donald Buermann Lawrence, faculty member in the Department of Botany.
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
   
• Dean Eaker papers – “Computer Pictures” Periodicals
  Digitization of the the complete run of the publication, “Computer Pictures.”
  Department: Charles Babbage Institute
  Project Sponsor: Amanda Wick
   

Approved

• William O. Beeman Audio Recordings
  Audio recordings of interviews with singers and managers in Beeman's Opera theater in Germany and field recordings of his theater work in Iran.
  Department: Arts & Humanities
  Project Sponsor: Nancy Herther
   
• CURA Publications
  2,200 publications produced by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
   
• Minnesota Animal Nutrition Conference (title varies)
  60th (1999) - 73rd (2012) conference proceedings. Proceeding is sponsored by Extension Service and CFANS, Dept. of Animal Science.
  Department: Magrath Library Project Sponsor: Marlys McGuire
   
• Project Girl Research Data Cards Scanning (pending review)
  Scanning an estimated 15,000-17,000 "McBee" format research data cards recording information on the lives of adolescent girls in the early 1970s. The scanning would be part of a project to have these cards crowd transcribed to build a database that would allow researchers to reuse this valuable data.
  Department: Social Welfare History Archives
  Project Sponsor: Linnea Andersen
   
• Student Union Minutes, 1920-2015
  This project will digitize approximately 100 volumes of minutes of the Student Union Board for the University of Minnesota.
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
   
• Additions to Spanish American Political Texts online library
  This project entails the digitization of seven pre-1900 titles to be added to the Spanish American Political Texts online collection.
  Department: James Ford Bell Library
  Project Sponsor: Rafael Tarrago
   
• Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Publications
  Seeks to digitize the following Minnesota Agricultural Experiment series: Class Bulletins and Press Bulletins. Project Sponsor: Marlys McGuire
   
• Digitizing Extension Newsletters and Miscellaneous Publications
  This project will continue the preservation of Extension documents and providing access to the public and Extension educators of historical information. A total of 17 additional titles have been selected as part of this project.
  Department: Magrath Library
  Project Sponsor: Kristen Mastel
   
• Fruit breeding history, with a focus on apples
  Digitize datasets from the Horticultural Research Center and books supporting early Minnesota apple research.
  Department: Magrath Library
  Project Sponsor: Shannon Farrell and Julie Kelly
   
• Music and Manuscripts: Bill Holm's Literary Life
  This project will increase access to the manuscripts and music composition notebooks of Minnesota writer and musician Bill Holm (1943-2009). The project will build on the work of the Upper Midwest Literary Archives’ 2017-2018 grant project Prairie Poets and Press: Literary Lives of the Upper Midwest, aimed at increasing access to literary manuscripts collections through outreach, arrangement, and description.
  Department: Upper Midwest Literary Archives
  Project Sponsor: Carissa Hansen
   
• Historical Minnesota Maps
  This project will add 60 new maps to our existing collection of maps of the State of Minnesota.
  Department: Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
   
• Historical Minneapolis / St. Paul Maps
  This project will add to 46 new maps to our existing collection of maps of the Twin Cities.
  Department: Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
   
• Historical Minnesota River Surveys
  This project would digitize a set of 149 early 20th century surveys of Minnesota Rivers.
  Department: Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
   
• Pre-modern East Asian History of Medicine Texts
  Digitization of 22 texts of pre-1800 Japanese and Chinese History of Medicine and Health titles.
  Department: Wangensteen Library
  Project Sponsor: Lois Hendrickson
   
• Theaterwork journal and The Gathering Post newspaper
  Theaterwork is a journal that began in the 1980s in St Peter, MN. It emerged from the Cherry Creek Theatre group, which organized in the 1970s along with the founding of the El Teatro Laboratorio. The Gathering Post was a newspaper also begun in St Peter. Both titles are representative of iconic grassroots publications that contribute to the discourse on community, theater, and social change.
  Department: Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
  Project Sponsor: Deborah Ultan
   

Completed