In the wake of recent events at the University of Virginia surrounding the ousting, and later reinstatement, of President Teresa Sullivan, the University Library, including the University Archives, in the Albert and Shirley ...

This seminar features three speakers – a rare book curator, a special collections administrator, and an antiquarian bookseller – all of whom actively practice and disseminate bibliographical scholarship to broad audiences, ...

This seminar will examine the considerations involved in planning and undertaking mass digitization projects to generate revenue from special collections holdings. Hal Espo, a consultant in the digital services arena, will ...

This poster will present the outcomes of a two-year collaboration with K-8 teachers to design an outreach program that helps students contextualize primary sources in both original and digital formats through the use of ...

“Performance and Performers in the Literary Archive”: Many traditional “literary” archives are home to the papers, recordings, printed ephemera, and artifacts of writers whose work has developed a strongly performative ...

“The Performance of Archives: Challenges and Opportunities”: Typically, performing arts archives include audiovisual materials in a variety of formats, in addition to photographs, paper documents, and 3-D objects. Making ...

“Take Five: Integrating Music Collections and the Brubeck Collection into Undergraduate Library Instruction”: The Brubeck Collection at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California is an unsuspected font of ...

“Theater in the Margins: Three Case Studies of Annotation in the Berg Collection”: Marginalia, a kind of responsive writing hinging on an earlier text, can be both private and public. Three books from the personal libraries ...

“Wikipedia and Libraries: a Special Relationship”: Wikipedia can be a highly influential source of information, and if libraries (and their unique holdings) were a part of Wikipedia, they would receive increased attention. ...