Tucked in a handsome suite of rooms in the basement of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, a little-known collection features rare medical books from the 16th century, historic yellow fever documents and something called “trench lice.”
Carmelita is a senior library administrator. Her portfolio includes responsibility for acquisitions, collections, digitization, document delivery, interlibrary loan, licensing, metadata description, stacks management, scholarly communication, and Ivy Library (Stacks).
Jason builds, maintains, and supports software solutions for digital library projects.
“FSU is being charged too much—all because of a poorly thought-out 20-year-old contract,” Library Dean Julia Zimmerman wrote in her notice to the FSU community. The Library’s decision came after 8 years of negotiations failed to yield an acceptable deal, and it was endorsed by a unanimous vote of the Faculty Senate and supported by the Provost.
What happens when great printers, binders, and publishers decide to go small? Miniature books of exquisite craft, structural diversity, and outsized beauty. Come see one hundred tiny volumes spanning four centuries and three continents. Coincides with the 2018 Miniature Book Society Grand Conclave in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Highlights from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry featuring the history of scientific accomplishment, patient care, social transformation, and technological evolution at UVA.
Mark is the Integrated Library Systems Engineer, providing configuration, customization, and support for the Library's integrated library systems.
Worried about the cost of doing research when the online article you need is protected by a paywall? You’ll be glad to learn you may not have to pay for that article after all. Unpaywall and Open Access Button are add-ons you can install to your browser that will search for free copies of paywalled articles. Both services are fast, free, and legal!
Ever since his untimely death at 17, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) has been one of England’s most fascinating literary figures. His “Rowley Poems”— pseudo-medieval poetry presented as the work of a 15th-century priest—is one of the most famous of all literary hoaxes. That England’s leading men of letters were so unprepared to expose it spurred important advances in textual scholarship. Yet underpinning Chatterton’s forgery was prodigious literary talent, tragically silenced by his presumed suicide.