Welcome to Gateway

We are currently testing Gateway and would very much appreciate your feedback. You can let us know how it works for you via this form or by email.

Gateway is a new, collborative digital collections platform that's hosted by the UNC Greensboro University Libraries, but the content is generated by institutions and individuals all over the region. 

The Digitization Unit at UNCG maintains the platform and does much of the digitization and metadata creation. We partner with other local libraries and museums and also occarionally arrange community scanning and history events with TriadHistory.org. We also work directly with local groups, churches, schools, and individuals to make their history avilable online. And we work closely with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and the State Library of North Carolina. We view this as a community resource rather than strictly as a UNCG project, so we chose the name "Gateway" to reference Greensboro's history as "The Gate City" and to show that the site is a gateway to digital history collections on many topics from many sources.

Gateway is designed to be much more user-friendly than our old digital collections platform and it is also designed to work much better with mobile devices. The major task of migrating content into the new platform has allowed us to re-think the organization of our collections and also to improve access and discovery through better descriptive data and improved full-text searching.

We hope you like it!

David Gwynn
Digitization Coordinator and Migration Project Manager

Kudos, thanks, eternal gratitude, etc.

Migration CMS Task Force

  • David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator (chair)
  • Richard Cox, Digital Technology Consultant
  • Franklin Graves, Information Technology Operations Manager (retired)
  • Donnie Harden, IT Professional/Server Admin
  • Tiffany Henry, Discovery Cataloger
  • Beth Ann Koelsch, Curator, Women Veterans Historical Project

University Libraries Digitization Team

  • David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator
  • Charley Birkner, Technology Support Technician
  • Callie Coward, Special Collections Cataloging & Digital Projects Library Technician
  • Kathy Howard, Digitization and Metadata Technician
  • Erica, Rau, Digitization and Metadata Technician
  • Brian Robinson, Fellow for Digital Curation and Scholarship

Digital Projects Priorities Team

  • Tim Bucknall, Assistant Dean for Electronic Resources and Information Technology (chair)
  • Christine Fischer, Head, Technical Services
  • Kathelene McCarty Smith, Interim Head, SCUA / Instruction and Outreach Archivist
  • David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator

Generally Indispensible People

  • Elise Allison, Greensboro History Museum
  • Brown Biggers, Information Technology Operations Manager
  • Anna Craft, Coordinator of Metadata Services
  • Lisa Gregory, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
  • Stacey Krim, Curator of Manuscripts
  • Erin Lawrimore, University Archivist
  • Wilson Mericle, Digitization and Metadata Technician (limited term)
  • Of course, there are a lot more, but these are the people who were most directly involved in the migration.