Showcase your collections, engage your community

Upload your library's content, manage your collections, and showcase your stories with a flexible, user-focused digital collection

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Build your award-winning digital collection

Recollect digital collections are built with both your collection managers and community in mind. We work closely with your library to create a platform that manages, preserves, and showcases your collection through a single, easy-to-use interface

Intuitive, effective collection management

Recollect seamlessly combines digital asset management, digital preservation, and community engagement systems into one manageable platform

Showcase and discovery widgets

Tell the stories in your collection through showcase and discovery widgets, including digital exhibits, interactive maps, and timelines

Incorporate your library's identity

Establish your digital collection as an extension of your library by incorporating your library’s identity, brand theme, and aesthetic

Advanced access and moderation controls

Protect restricted content with secure access controls, or employ advanced moderation tools if your library chooses to accept community contributions

Supporting public libraries worldwide

Public libraries of all sizes have built their digital collection with Recollect to manage their content and showcase their collection to the world

Explore a selection of digital collections here, or visit this page to explore how libraries, archives, and academic institutions are using Recollect

Streamlined collection management

Recollect's intuitive back end makes managing complex collections easy. Support your team with efficient, comprehensive collection management tools to make managing a diverse variety of tasks simple

Our experienced implementation teams use dedicated workshops to understand your specific requirements, ensuring your library's digital collection meets your requirements, incorporates your workflows, and reduces the time spent on administrative tasks

Engage your community

Create a tailored user experience that encourages your community to search, browse, and discover the valuable material held in your collection

Digital exhibits, interactive showcase and discovery widgets, moderated community contributions, and other feature-rich tools enable your library to effectively tell the stories your collection holds, or encourage users to journey further into your digital collection

Manage your collection

Comprehensive file support

Store and preserve image, audio, video, text, document, and 3D files, accessible through a single universal viewer

Configurable item templates

Configurable item and metadata templates allow you to easily upload, organize, and manage all the content your collection

Batch upload and edit

Efficiently upload, update, and clean high volumes of data with dedicated batch upload and ingest tools

Automatic OCR

Recollect's automatic OCR converts handwritten text into searchable, editable transcriptions

Integrated digital preservation

Our Digital Preservation ensure your assets and information are archived, monitored, and migrated when necessary, protecting files from digital degradation and obsolescence

API integration

Connect and share your digital archive with the global community using a variety of available APIs

Quick statistics

Gain insight into how your collection is used with quick statistics

Engage your community

Automatic discovery pathways

Leverage metadata and create connections within your digital archive to easily navigate between items, collections, and contextual information

Contextual information hubs

Create information hubs to provide information on people, events, sub-collections, and other topics, while providing direct links to all related items

Tailored user experience

Define your end user through our Persona and User Experience workshops, and structure your collection to meet their needs

Advanced search

Advanced search options enable users to browse your entire collection using linked metadata, searchable text, and descriptive filters

Access control groups

Ensure sensitive and restricted content is only accessible by the intended audience with secure access control groups

Community contributions

Enable community contributions to allow your users to contribute their historically significant material, or suggest edits, tags, or comments on existing content

Personal user collections

Allow registered users to save items to their own "My Collection", enabling them to personalize their experience and keep track of their own progress

"We work with institutions from all over the state, with 98 contributing institutions right now, ranging in size from small museums to great big archives.

We've collected 210 collections so far, made up of a wide array of content including photographs, documents, yearbooks, maps, books, and ephemera related to Montana history and the Montana experience."

Jennifer Birnel, Montana History Portal Director

Montana State Library

Navigating Digital Collection Software: Stories of Strategy and Success

Managing digital assets, providing patron access and engagement, and ensuring digital preservation all provide unique challenges, particularly when collection managers must consider integration, information silos, and conditional requirements for their institution.

Hosted by the Library Journal, join representatives from Montana State Library, the State of Arizona Research Library, and the University of Georgia’s Franklin College as they discuss how they navigated the challenges of consolidating their digital collection management systems into a single platform, how they prioritized their unique requirements, and the outcomes of their journey.

Watch the webinar here

Reach out to Recollect

Get in touch to learn more about the Recollect platform, or book a demonstration with our Product Specialists.