In March 2014 Will Rourk, Information Visualization Specialist for the University Library, jumped at an opportunity to scan 3D images of a chemical hearth, part of a Jefferson-era chemistry lab exposed by renovations to the Rotunda. Rourk’s instinct was to … Continue reading
Please come to Alderman 421 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday April 1 for a panel discussion: “Data Visualization of Cultural Heritage Sites: The JUEL Project, Chaco, and UNESCO.” Worthy Martin from the Institute for Advanced Technology in … Continue reading
How often do we assume that a step toward digital preservation is a step toward permanence? Do we ever consider that a physical book, subject to inevitable decay, will outlast a digital copy? According to an article, “Preventing a Digital … Continue reading
Conservator for Library Collections, Eliza Gilligan, has been collaborating with a team of experts from the humanities and natural sciences in a project designed by UVA medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger to study the origins of “uterine vellum,” a material used … Continue reading
The Library is currently using a $245,000 grant from the McGregor Fund to digitize part of the Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. According to a story in UVA Today, … Continue reading
UVA Today features U.Va. Library Book Conservator Eliza Gilligan and her efforts to preserve an exceedingly rare eighteenth century botanical guide, Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful Plants Described in the Gardener’s Dictionary. Our copy was donated by the Rev. … Continue reading
