Monthly Archives: August 2016
NEH Grant allows Scholars’ Lab to Enhance Neatline Digital Mapping Program
In an article, “Mapping the Humanities,” UVA Today features the Scholars’ Lab and its innovative program Neatline—a digital platform that uses maps, timelines, and text to create multidimensional digital humanities projects. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded … Continue reading
Undergrads Can Make a Difference by Joining the Library Council
All UVA undergrads who want to have a great time helping the Library to understand and meet their needs should look into joining the Library Council. Members will meet with University Librarian John Unsworth and help design new and better … Continue reading
Digital Yoknapatawpha Project Draws from Special Collections’ Faulkner Material
The UVA Today article, “UVA Spearheads Effort to Digitally Map Faulkner’s Literary World,” features a collaboration between UVA English Professor Stephen Railton and digital specialists—including staff of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and the Library’s Digital … Continue reading
Virginia University Libraries Tell Congress: Needless Copyright Revision Could Threaten Our Mission
The Copyright Office is set to unveil a potentially damaging rewrite of key parts of the Copyright Act despite stiff opposition from libraries themselves. The Library Deans and Directors at five Virginia universities—John Unsworth of the University of Virginia, Carrie … Continue reading
The Library Welcomes New Book Conservator Sue Donovan
The Library welcomes Sue Donovan who began work on July 25 as the new Book Conservator for the Preservation team in Content Stewardship. Before coming to UVA, Sue studied book and paper conservation at the University of Paris-Sorbonne; interned at … Continue reading