The California Digital Library has announced a $982,175 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS – National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant program) to conduct a two-year research and demonstration project designed to build the foundation for … Continue reading
From Judy Thomas, Director of Faculty Programs The Course Enrichment Grant (CEG) program supports faculty who want to enhance their students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data, as well as create new kinds of media-rich assignments. … Continue reading
In April of 2020, prior to the construction phase of Alderman Library renovation, the Library’s senior leadership needed to decide what to do with 2 tanks of helium gas that Scholars’ Lab GIS specialists have used to send up a … Continue reading
From Judy Thomas, Director of Faculty Programs: Research Sprints, hosted by the University of Virginia Library, give faculty the opportunity to partner with a team of expert librarians on a project representing any phase in the scholarly life cycle of … Continue reading
From Dave Ghamandi, Open Publishing Librarian and Managing Editor, Aperio Announcement: Aperio, MLA Release New Publication, The Public Domain Song Anthology Aperio, the University of Virginia’s open access press, and the Music Library Association are pleased to announce a joint … Continue reading
The University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Virginia $600,000 to complete the work of establishing the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Cooperative. For this final phase … Continue reading
A recent article in UVA Today highlights efforts by grad students Neal Curtis and Samuel Lemley to preserve the Library’s card catalog. “As the library’s record of itself, the [archived] card catalog will enable future researchers to reconstruct how the … Continue reading
The University of Virginia Library is calling for proposals for two faculty programs: Course Enrichment Grants provide support to faculty who would like to enhance students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data, as well as create … Continue reading
A Cavalier Daily article, “Illustrating infectious diseases in 3D,” highlights Library Information Visualization Specialist Arin Bennett‘s contribution to a grant-funded project to create a virtual reality program for instructing UVA students about complex biological processes. The $99,945 grant from the … Continue reading
A UVA Today article, “A Walk in the Park: Central Park becomes a Classroom for 15 UVA Students,” relates the experiences of UVA students enrolled in the landscape architecture seminar “Central Park: Public Space as Conceived, Perceived and Lived.” Students … Continue reading
