By law, any material required for the education of a disabled student must be made accessible for them in a timely manner. In the United States, the legal obligation to provide accessible learning materials falls on individual educational institutions, and … Continue reading
As UVA shifted to online learning in the spring 2020 semester, the Library’s Teaching & Learning team drew on expertise with Library media resources and online research materials to craft a guide for Teaching Online. This fall, remote teaching is … Continue reading
Research Data Services (RDS) is ready to help you at multiple stages of research for any data-oriented project involving either quantitative or qualitative data. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned data wrangler, the Library provides instruction in data … Continue reading
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
