Preservation Lab

The Preservation Lab, located in the Heritage and Research Library, provides equipment for personal archiving of documents, home movies, photographs, and more. We offer one-on-one guidance to help you get started learning how to use the equipment. Once you're familiar with the process, you'll complete your digitization project independently.

There is no fee to use the lab; however, you will need to bring your own USB flash drive or memory card to save your files.

Items able to be preserved:

Photographs

• Negatives

• Photographs

• Slides

  
  

Audio/Visual

• 8mm Reels

• Camcorder Tapes (8mm, VHS C, Mini DV)

• Cassettes

• CDs

• DVDs

• Mini DVDs

• VHS Tapes

• 3.5 inch floppy disks

Audio/Visual formats digitize in real time. If the tape has two hours of content, then it will take two hours to digitize that content. There is no way to speed up the process. All copyright laws must be followed when preserving items. If you do not own the copyright, we will unable to help you digitize the item.