Acquisition of Content
While some dLOC content was "born digital," its holdings are primarily made up of items digitized on-site by partner institutions. In many cases, dLOC has been able to collaborate with partners to acquire funding both for state-of-the-art digitization equipment and on-site training from its expert staff. dLOC also accepts partnerships from institutions willing to increase access to their collections using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).