Tulane University Libraries' Digital Collections are designed to support the teaching, learning and research needs of the undergraduate and graduate programs offered by Tulane University; to help support the research needs of the Tulane faculties and to bring recognition to the university and libraries.
Materials in subjects aligned with the curriculum or faculty research of Tulane University will be acquired and provide background and context for courses offered in all disciplines. The Tulane University Digital Library acquires interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and theoretical materials to complement thematic and specialized courses offered. The digital library collects material at the instructional support level and selectively at the research level.
Faculty research (published and unpublished), essays, photographs, slides, maps, diaries, manuscripts, broadsides, newspapers, journals, dissertations, theses, monographs, musical scores, government publications, architectural drawings, audio and video materials, artworks, artifacts, learning objects, finding aids and reference tools free of copyright and legal restrictions are the main forms of materials collected by the digital library. The digital library will consider other materials as recommended by faculty and staff.
Analog, digitized, and born-digital materials.
Materials in any language will be acquired in accordance with the curricular and research needs of the faculty.
No geographical area is excluded.
No chronological time is excluded.
