Scholars’ Lab staff presented 43 public programs in 2010, showcasing digital work created by faculty, students, and staff, including the “Illuminating Historical Architecture” project. Using time-lapse and 3-D modeling software, it showed how the sun would have moved through a house in Rome, AD 230.
Does the future of Alderman Library hold rooftop gardens, habitable lightwells, and open spaces for digital and traditional scholarship? It does according to the Scholars’ Lab exhibition “Conjectures: Visions of the West Wing of Alderman as a Catalyst for New Learning Environments,” which featured projects by graduate students from the Architecture School. Their goal: to reimagine at least three floors of Alderman Library, focusing on spaces devoted to digital scholarship.
Joining over 200,000 other international images, the Charles L. Brown Sciences & Engineering Library’s digital herbarium is now available online at morphbank.net. The Library’s digital herbarium consists of Virginia plants collected and dried in the course of the past century.
Thanks to Music Library Staff work on the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), musicians looking for a particular succession of notes or wanting to transcribe medieval music to modern notation will soon be in luck.
The MEI allows underlying code to be added to music, giving it the same qualities as digitized text.
iTunes U listeners can visit the Library's iTunes site to hear William Faulkner speak during his time at U.Va., watch news stories from the 1950s, and listen to Scholars' Lab talks on the newest in the digital world. There's something for everyone, which is why the Library's videos and mp3s are among U.Va.'s top downloads.
Visitors to the Declaration of Independence at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library feel closer to history than ever, as the new Microsoft Surface™ offers an interactive experience with the exhibition’s rare documents.
Read letters written by Thomas Jefferson and other Declaration signers up close. Examine pictures in detail. And, of course, appreciate the document that started our nation as if it were in your hands.
The Library is a recognized leader in developing services to support and sustain new forms of scholarship. As the University has incorporated digital scholarship into the core fabric of the institution, the Library requires funds to build technological capability, reshape services, and explore new uses of digital content. The Library is working together with University faculty and technology experts to build the information technology framework to ensure short-term innovation and long-term sustainability of scholarly work across disciplines.
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