The Digital Library Federation Contributor’s Series features a piece by Carla Fotherby, Collections Specialist, Digital Scholarship Services, University of South Florida Libraries; and Lori Collins, co-Director of the USF Libraries Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections and the Digital Media Commons, University of South Florida Libraries. In this piece we overview the importance of digitization and showcase how 3D technologies are changing the way we interact with the world around us, and how we are implementing these tools in libraries.