North Carolina State University (NC State) has joined the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, a values-led initiative to collaboratively build sustainable, scalable tools for digital collections stewardship.

NC State intends to use JSTOR Seeklight, the AI-assisted processing tool within JSTOR Stewardship, to accelerate work on processing unique digital archival collections at scale and make those collections broadly available to students and researchers. As a charter participant, NC State will help shape future JSTOR Seeklight functionality and shared practices through their own work with the tool, as well as their participation in strategic working groups and monthly community discussions.

“JSTOR has a long history of community-centered innovation to both help libraries efficiently manage collections and make digital collections broadly available – with significant benefits for learning, teaching, and research. We are excited to collaborate with JSTOR to develop Seeklight, its latest innovation stewarding collections at scale,” said Greg Raschke, Senior Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at NC State.

Bruce Heterick, Senior Vice President of Open Collections and Infrastructure at ITHAKA,  commented: “NC State has a wonderful legacy of supporting emerging technologies that have transformative potential in the library ecosystem. They were early supporters of JSTOR in the transition from print to digital with journals, and they were important in the early adoption of digital preservation as Portico was being developed. We look forward to working with them now to increase the availability and discoverability of digital collections in the research workflow.”

About North Carolina State University

Founded in 1887, NC State is a public research-extensive land-grant university located in Raleigh, NC and known for its think and do culture to provide affordable education and ground-breaking research.

About JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a seamless, cloud-hosted platform that unites digital asset management, long-term preservation, and expanded discovery pathways—including sharing on JSTOR—with the AI-assisted collections processing tools of JSTOR Seeklight.