The University Library has just announced it has completed Phase II in its project to digitize Charlottesville’s Daily Progress newspaper and make all issues through 1964 viewable online in Virgo, the Library’s catalog. Phase I came about when Bradley Daigle—at … Continue reading
The Library is pleased to welcome Nicole Royal as the new Preservation Projects Specialist in Preservation Services of Content Stewardship where she will guide a variety of preservation projects. She will begin on Monday, May 2. Nicole has previously worked … Continue reading
The Library is proud to announce that SHARE (Shared Access Research Ecosystem)—a “higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable”—has selected our own Sherry Lake, Scholarly Repository Librarian for Content Stewardship, … Continue reading
Recently, UVA Today followed Will Rourk, Cultural Visualization Specialist for the University Library, as he used a handheld laser scanner to capture 3D data of architectural details inside Garrett Hall—a dining hall when it was built in 1909, but currently … Continue reading
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
