UniPa Digital Library is the digital platform designed and managed by the Library System and Historical Archive of the University of Palermo.

Developed in an open-source environment on the DSpace-GLAM platform, UniPa Digital Library aims to guide the academic community, citizens, and society as a whole in discovering the digitized cultural heritage of the University of Palermo.

Inspired by the guidelines of the National Digitization Plan (PND) and those drafted by the Central Institute for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, the Library System and Historical Archive of the University of Palermo conceived the UniPa Digital Library project.

An educational tool, a support for research and knowledge: the UniPa Digital Library platform was created to preserve, manage, promote, enhance, and provide, in digital format, the archival and library heritage of the University of Palermo.

Complying with international standards for archival and bibliographic description, the UniPa Digital Library platform ensures the long-term preservation of digital objects and collections while enabling their search, download, and reuse through the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) protocol, suitable for viewing, annotating, sharing, and manipulating ultra-high-definition images, in accordance with the licenses assigned to individual objects and current regulations.

UniPa Digital Library represents the evolution of several projects carried out by the Library System and Historical Archive of the University as part of ordinary or extraordinary activities, such as the digitization of ancient printed texts preserved in the University Libraries—initiated in 2018 when Palermo was named Italian Capital of Culture (available on the Omeka platform)—and the digitization of Academic Yearbooks, a selection of volumes known as “Cautele,” and a register chosen from the series “Decreti reali e risoluzioni sovrane" ("Royal Decrees and Sovereign Resolutions", accessible from the Historical Archive section of the UniPa portal).