Welcome to the Libraries' Image & Multimedia Collections, currently home to over 75 collections and 220,000 items. Collections grow daily, thanks to partnerships between the UNL Libraries and other units on campus. Over 11,000 unique visitors search the Collections each month. Collections are comprised of a mix of teaching, historical, archival, and display collections and range in subject matter from Art, Architecture & Interior Design to Textile Studies & Clothing to Water Resources. In addition to images, a variety of media types is supported, specifically audio and video as well as art, text, and music. For example: NET houses programming series (859 videos, “All About Books”, “Big Red Wrap–Up”, “Nebraska Stories”, and “Recession Survival Guide” to name a few) in the NET Media Archives; and the School of Music has both audio recordings and digital images of programs for performances found in the Performances from the UNL School of Music.

The UNL Libraries provide the software, CONTENTdm, that powers the Libraries' Image & Multimedia Collections – CONTENTdm is a digital collection management software that orchestrates the storage, management, and delivery of digital collections across the web. It's an easy to use Windows-based collection builder that handles any file type, and allows searching through standard Web browsers by end-users anywhere, unless copyright restricted. If interested in donating a collection or developing a collection, please contact Jolie Graybill, Image & Multimedia Collections Coordinator, at jgraybill3@unl.edu or 407-472-4547, 319 Love Library.

Access to the Image & Multimedia Collections at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is handled through a proxy server redirection. For those restricted collections, if the user is on campus, access is available for all collections. If user is off-campus, an authentication prompt displays to identify users as a UNL affiliate authorized to view the University's materials. Public users can still access certain collections made available through the public link, and are free to browse the collections without an . To view any collection denoted with an , please feel free to visit the UNL Libraries campus to use one of the public computers.

The CONTENTdm plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint allows users to connect to a CONTENTdm site, and download 'My Favorites' images along with metadata for use in presentations. A Windows version of the plug-in is available for download http://contentdm.unl.edu/downloads/Cdmppt2009Setup.msi. For additional help on using the plug-in, please see the help files on the CONTENTdm site http://www.contentdm.org/help5/plugins/index.asp, or download the PDF instructions.

The server address to use to connect to the public and private collections is:
http://0-contentdm.unl.edu.library.unl.edu. The server address to use for just the collection accessible to the public is: http://contentdm.unl.edu/.

System requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, running Microsoft Windows .NET Framework Version 2.0 or later. Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, 2003, or 2007. Mac OS X is not supported. For further assistance in using this software, please Contact Us.

For assistance with: metadata for collection development, please see these Guidelines; overall assistance with building a first CONTENTdm collection, please see the CONTENTdm Building Your First Collection; scanning and digital imaging benchmarks, please see the following resource -- http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/scanning_benchmarks.php.