Maintenance beginning at 12:01 a.m. on July 9 will impact Virgo functionality: The ability to sign in, make requests, view availability, and manage checkouts may be affected. We expect normal function to return by 8 a.m.
News, announcements, updates, and happenings in the UVA Library
Guest post by Cecelia Parks, Undergraduate Student Success Librarian.
For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the Collective Biographies of Women, a digital humanities project led by Alison Booth, Professor of English and Academic Director of the Scholars’ Lab. You can access the Collective Biographies of Women here.
Below, Booth answers questions about this massive project, which serves as a database of historical women as well as an annotated bibliography of more than 1200 books.
Q. How would you describe the Collective Biographies of Women (CBW) project?
We’re pleased to announce that the Women’s Maker Program has accepted its third cohort of Residents.
The Women’s Maker Program supports a makerspace program that’s designed to help increase Residents’ confidence and interest in STEM and makerspace technologies, improve their sense of belonging in the field, and better prepare them for future careers in the STEM workforce.
UVA has made a change in the way it serves proxy URLs for electronic resources. If you access electronic resources directly through links on the Library website (or through tools like JournalFinder or Databases A-Z), you do not need to take any actions.
If you have bookmarks to electronic resources, you will need to update those bookmarks. Please keep reading to understand how to avoid broken links when the old URLs are removed.
What is happening?
UVA is upgrading the server that enables faculty and students to access Library electronic resources from off Grounds.
The URL for UVA’s proxy server changed from proxy01.its.virginia.edu (or proxy.its.virginia.edu) to proxy1.library.virginia.edu. You will need to change all your bookmarks that use the old proxy. For example,
While Jeffersonian in appearance, the new roofs incorporate modern technology. ... Will Rourk, a technology specialist with the UVA Library, [used] his laser scanner at the roof project to take 3D scans.
The University of Virginia’s Small Special Collections Library is opening its doors for a printing event celebrating America’s 250th birthday, giving attendees their own replica of the original Declaration of Independence.
People can step back in time to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. At the University of Virginia, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library will host Revolutionary Printing on July 4.
Josef Beery has run printing demonstrations for Rare Book School at UVA for years, after he stumbled into an interest in printing and rare books decades ago as a UVA student. On July 4, Beery will print replicas of the Declaration of Independence for the public at “Revolutionary Printing,” an event that the UVA Library is hosting in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Wednesday afternoon, June 17, the U.S. Green Building Council awarded University of Virginia’s Edgar Shannon Library an award to celebrate advancements in sustainability through better buildings.
