Digital Library Services Handbook

Welcome! The goal of this handbook is to provide insight into how the Digital Library Services (DLS) team at Princeton University Library (PUL) performs our work, the promises we make to our collaborators, and the expectations we have of them. We also use this as a place to document common practices and tools we’ve found useful in our team.

For documented cultural norms and technical practice across teams in PUL IT, see pul-it-handbook.

Our Vision

DLS has worked with its partners to define a vision for the Digital Library in the context of Princeton University Library’s Mission, Vision, and North Star Statements that will help us situate our work within the broader vision and move it forward.

Princeton University’s Digital Library will be a trusted and welcoming platform for connecting people, collections, and ideas across cultures and generations through library-held material. By making it easy to preserve, discover, contextualize, and reuse digital resources, we empower communities worldwide to collaborate in knowledge generation and rich storytelling.

DLS will prioritize development work and organization processes in such a way as to have the most impact towards this vision, and we encourage our partners and stakeholders to imagine ways for us to get there together.

Feedback

We’d love to hear your feedback and questions about the contents of this handbook! You can contact us in the following ways:

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