Texas Christian University (TCU) has recently gone live with Alma Specto, taking an important step toward creating more discoverable, engaging, and accessible digital collections.
Designed for libraries and cultural heritage institutions, Alma Specto helps libraries reveal the value within their digital collections through AI-assisted metadata enrichment, enhanced discovery, and new ways to showcase unique materials. AI-powered capabilities can help identify people, places, organizations, and objects within digital content, while librarians and archivists remain in control by reviewing, refining, and approving suggestions before they become part of the collection record.
With Alma Specto now live, TCU is beginning a new chapter in how it manages, preserves, and opens up its digital collections to its community.
“We’re excited about the possibilities Alma Specto opens up for TCU’s digital collections. Bringing digital access and preservation together in one system gives us an opportunity to streamline our workflows, make our digital collections more accessible and discoverable, and explore new possibilities for online exhibits. Most importantly, we’re looking forward to finding new and more effective ways to connect users with our digital content.”
– Mary Saffell, Director of Special Collections
Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University
Want to hear more directly from TCU?
Join us on September 22 for the Library Journal webinar “Reimagining Digital Collections for the Next Generation of Library Users”.
Mary Saffell will join Misu Kim, Assistant Library Director for Technical Services at The University of Texas at Dallas Libraries, to share how their institutions are approaching the next generation of digital collections.
Together, they’ll discuss how libraries can improve discoverability and access to unique materials, create more engaging experiences for students and researchers, use AI-assisted metadata enrichment and integrated workflows to reduce manual effort, and prepare their collections for future teaching, research, and engagement.
Register now and hear directly from TCU and UT Dallas about their experiences and what’s next for their digital collections.
