Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! Seven years before construction of the Rotunda, Thomas Jefferson envisioned its inner dome as a moving model of the night … Continue reading
Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! Digital Humanities is, by necessity and by design, interdisciplinary and collaborative, branching across the University from traditional humanist disciplines into … Continue reading
Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! In 2019, the Library began providing streaming access to recordings of traditional folk ballads included among the Papers of the … Continue reading
Over the next few years, Scholars’ Lab will operate from the 3rd floor of Clemons Library as renovations to the main library progress. And while COVID-19 mitigation efforts have caused the Library to scale back in-person operations, virtual consultation sessions … Continue reading
New! The Library offers access to the Colored Conventions digital humanities project (CCP), a research hub that gathers primary resources and recent scholarship shedding light on a neglected chapter of Black activism that began decades before the end of slavery. … 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
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 featured article in UVA Today, “Digging into the Archives, UVA Library Brings Old Folksong Recordings to Light,” tells about a Library project to digitize 1930s field recordings of traditional Virginia ballad singers. The recordings, mostly of Appalachian singers, many … 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
