Hours: Open when Alderman is. General assistance 9am–5pm Mon–Fri and noon–5pm Sun.

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The Scholars' Lab is a place where faculty and advanced students in the humanities and social sciences can explore digital resources, find expert help, and collaborate on innovative research projects. We also host exciting events, such as workshops, talks, and roundtables, and we sponsor a graduate student fellowship in the digital humanities.

Expertise:

The faculty and staff of the Scholars' Lab can assist you in

• project development and digital research;
• electronic text encoding and qualitative analysis;
• digitization of texts and images, including OCR; and
• your research computing needs in the humanities and social sciences.

Environment:

• an open, inviting space with seating areas specially designed for collaborative and solo work
• 31 high-end PC workstations with widescreen, high-resolution monitors
• complete suite of peripheral equipment (including printers, CD/DVD burners, and flat-bed, sheet-feed, duplex, and large format model scanners)
• enhanced software and digital resources for statistical and spatial analysis, text and image manipulation and visualization
• all areas well-configured for personal laptop use (wired or wireless)
• small wired conference room with flat panel monitor, PC, DVD, VCR, audio, projection and a white board
• a fully-furnished 12-seat computer classroom with Smart™ technology

Software:

In addition to the software available on all ITC-maintained machines at UVA (listed here), the Scholars' Lab features specialized software in the following categories:

• GIS Utilities
• Graphics & Presentations
• Network Utilities
• Statistical Utilities
• Text Encoding, Scanning, and Word Processing