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Publications

2008

Bethany Nowviskie, Bess Sadler, and Erik Hatcher. “Adapting an Open Source, Scholarly Web 2.0 System for Findability in Library Catalogs.” Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries. (Laura Cohen, ed.). Association of College and Research Libraries: Chicago, 2008.

2007

Debbie Berkeley, Lori Kressin, Cyril Oberlander. "Deploying assistive technology across campus: a collaborative approach." In Jayne Ashworth, Lynnell Lacy, Lisa Brown, Carol Rhodes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 7-10, 2007. ACM. (2007)

Given, Lisa M., Stan Ruecker, Heather Simpson, Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, and Andrea Ruskin. "Inclusive interface design for seniors: Image-browsing for a health information context." JASIST 58(11): 1610-1617 (2007).

Gushee, Liz. "Digital Scene and Heard: An Interview with Bess Sadler, Research and Development Librarian, University of Virginia Library." Images, The Newsletter of the VRA, vol.4, no.6 (December 2007).

Bethany Nowviskie. “A Scholars’ Guide to Research, Collaboration, and Publication in NINES,” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. 47: August 2007.

Nowviskie, Bethany and Jerome McGann. "NINES: A Federated Model for Integrating Digital Scholarship." Electronic Book Review (Spring 2007)

Nowviskie, Bethany. "Collex: Collections and Exhibits for the Remixable Web." Electronic Book Review (Spring 2007)

Oberlander, Cyril. "Transforming the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Engine." IFLA Journal 33(1): 32–40 (2007).

Sadler, Bess. "Talking with Talis podcast: Bess Sadler talks with Talis about eIFL and Library-in-a-box." (April 25, 2007)

Sadler, Elizabeth (Bess), and Lisa M. Given. "Affordance theory: a framework for graduate students' information behavior." Journal of Documentation, Vol.63,  No. 1, pp. 115-141 (2007).

2006

Awre, Chris and Richard Green. "Fedora Users' Conference." Ariadne 48 (July 2006). (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/fedora-users-rpt/)

Chavez, Robert, Timothy W. Cole, Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas G. Habing, Jon Dunn, William Parod, and Thornton Staples. "DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs." D-Lib Magazine 12, Number 10 (2006). (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html)

Feigenoff, Charlie. "Hats off to Fedora." Oscar (January 2006). (http://www.oscar.virginia.edu/x6920.xml)

Kobert, Linda. "iPod: It's Not Just for Music Anymore." virginia.edu, Volume X, Number 1 (Spring 2006). (http://www.itc.virginia.edu/virginia.edu/spring06/ipod.htm)

Kott, Katherine, Jon Dunn, Martin Halbert, Leslie Johnston, Liz Milewicz, and Sarah Shreeves. “Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Project.” D-Lib Magazine 12, Number 5 (2006). (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may06/kott/05kott.html)

Johnston, Leslie. “The Importance of Content Standards in Digital Libraries” and “ University of Virginia Library Usability Case Study” in Morgan, Eric Lease, et al, Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Digital Library Services and Collections with MyLibrary, University of Notre Dame Libraries, 2006: pp. 34-39 and 81-82.

2005

"Fedora Version 2.0 Open-Source Repository Supports XML and Web Services." XML Cover Pages (March 18, 2005), 'Cover Stories'. (http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-18-a.html)

"Fedora 2.0: A Powerful Open-Source Solution for Digital Repositories." Summary report in D-Lib Magazine Volume 11, Number 3 (March 2005), 'In Brief'. (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/03inbrief.html)

Carlson, Scott. "The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Libraries create online archives to preserve and share film and video." In The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 51, issue 34 (April 29, 2005): page A30. (http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i34/34a03001.htm by subscription only)

Daigle, Bradley J. “How do we Sustain Digital Scholarship?” in Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings. Ed. Martin Halbert. Metascholar Initiative, Atlanta: 2005.

Feigenoff, Charles. "Building the Digital Library." In Explorations, vol. 35, issue 12 (July 1- 14, 2005). (http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/digital_library.html)

Hernandez, Jenny. "Civil Rights News Clips Now Available to the Public." In The Cavalier Daily (April 27, 2005). (http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=23447&pid=1298)

Johnston, Leslie. “Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository.” In D-Lib Magazine, vol. 11, Number 10 (2005). (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/johnston/10johnston.html)

2005 UVa Library Report to the Digital Library Federation

2004

Bauman, Syd, Alejandro Bia, Lou Burnard, Tomaz Erjavek, Christine Ruotolo, and Susan Schriebman. "Migrating Language Resources from SGML to XML: the Text Encoding Initiative Recommendations." In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (2004): 139–142.

Johnston, Leslie. "An Overview of Digital Library Repository Development at the University of Virginia Library." OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20, Number 4 (2004): pp. 170-173.

Nowviskie, Bethany and Johanna Drucker. "Speculative Computing: Temporal Modelling," in A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (2004)

Thomas, Judith. "Digital Video, the Final Frontier." Library Journal (January 15, 2004).

2004 UVa Library Report to the Digital Library Federation

2003

"An Online Trek to Tibet." Explorations (Winter 2003).

Gibson, Matthew, and Christine Ruotolo. "Beyond the Web: TEI, the Digital Library, and the Ebook Revolution." Computers and the Humanities 37, no. 1 (2003): pp. 57-63.

Manafy, Michelle. "This Fedora’s Big Enough for Any DAM Project." EContent Magazine (October 2003).

Nowviskie, Bethany. "Subjectivity in the Ivanhoe Game: Visual and Computational Strategies." Text Technology, vol.12, n.2: 2003.

Staples, Thornton, Ross Wayland, and Sandra Payette. "The Fedora Project: An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System." D-Lib Magazine (April 2003).

Villano, Matt. "Dewey Goes Digital." In University Business, vol. 6, no. 6 (June 2003): pp. 24-29. (http://universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p=287)

2003 UVa Library Report to the Digital Library Federation

2002

Camden, Beth Picknally. "Dublin Core for Digital Video Clips." In Cataloging the Web: Metadata, AACR, and MARC 21, edited by Wayne Jones, Judith R. Ahronheim, and Josephine Crawford. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press (2002).

Cohen, David. "New Zealand University Opens E-Text Center in Partnership With U. of Virginia." The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 5, 2002).

Greenstein, Daniel and Suzanne E. Thorin. "University of Virginia Case Study." In The Digital Library: A Biography. Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources. Second Edition (December 2002).

Marshall, Catherine C., and Christine Ruotolo. "Reading-in-the-small: a study of reading on small form factor devices." International Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the second ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (2002): 56-64.

Nowviskie, Bethany. "Select Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing." Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 109-131 (February 2002)

Payette, Sandra and Thornton Staples, "The Mellon Fedora Project: Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web Services," Sixth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2459. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2002): pp. 406-421.

Roland, Perry. "The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)." Proceedings First International Conference on Musical Application using XML, MAX 2002. Goffredo Haus & Maurizio Longari, eds.

"Monumental Collection of George Washington Letters And Documents Now Available Online." University of Virginia Top News (November 13, 2002).

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2001

Castan, Gerd, Michael Good and Perry Roland. "Extensible Markup Language (XML) for Music Applications: An Introduction." The Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration. (Computing in Musicology, 12), Cambridge MA, 2001.

Nehls, Chris. "Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at the University of Virginia." Virginia Libraries 46, Number 4 (Winter 2001).

Price, Kenneth M. "Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive."Documentary Editing 23, no. 2 (June 2001): pp. 29-33, 43.

Roland, Perry. "MDL and Musicat: An XML Approach to Musical Data and Meta-Data." The Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration. (Computing in Musicology, 12), Cambridge MA, 2001.

Young, Jeffrey R. "A University That Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books." The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 18, 2001).

Valenzi, Kathleen. "Digital Teams in Academe: The Collaboration Between IT and Academic Professionals." University of Virginia Computer Science News (Fall 2001).

"UVa Library to Build Digital Information Community to Support American Studies Research Worldwide." University of Virginia Top News (November 12, 2001).

"UVa Students Test Ebooks." University of Virginia Top News (May 23, 2001).

2001 UVa Library Report to the Digital Library Federation

2000

Cover, Robin. "UVA Ships Over 600,000 XML EBooks for Microsoft Reader." The XML Cover Pages (October 2, 2000).

Nowviskie, Bethany. "Victorian Resources Online: an Annotated List of Scholarly Websites." Victorian Centre, Royal Holloway College, University of London. (2000).

Staples, Thornton, and Ross Wayland. "Virginia Dons Fedora: A Prototype for a Digital Object Repository." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2000).

Thomas, Judy. "Creating places: the virtual tour and the media archive." In Villes en visite virtuelle. Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne (2000).

2000 UVa Library Report to the Digital Library Federation

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1999

"Computers marry maps, data and produce new insights." Inside UVA Online (November 12-18, 1999).

Explorations. UVA Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (Winter 1999).

Furlough, Mike. "Unlocking Data Secrets: The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center." virginia.edu 3, no. 1 (Spring 1999).

Provine, Rick. "Guidelines for media resources in academic libraries." College & Research Libraries News 60, no. 4. (April 1999): pp. 294-302.

Provine, Rick, John Alexander and Rachel Saury. "Delivering technology through collaboration at the University of Virginia."
College & University Media Review 5, no. 2. (Spring 1999): pp. 49-67.

Roland, Perry. "The 'Preposterous Muddle' Revisited: An XML Thematic Catalog DTD." ACH-ALLC '99 Conference Proceedings. Charlottesville: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 1999.

1998

Yott, Patrick. "Enhancing Access to Government Information: Redistribution of Data via the World Wide Web." In Government Information Collections in the Networked Environment: New Issues and Models. New York: Haworth Press (1998): pp. 61-76.

1997

"Multi-Institutional EAD: The University of Virginia's Role in the American Heritage Project." The American Archivist 60, no. 4 (Fall 1997): pp. 436-445.

Seaman, David. "The User Community as Responsibility and Resource: Building a Sustainable Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1997).

Seaman, David and Kendon Stubbs. "The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction at the University of Virginia." Digital Libraries no. 9 (March 1997).

Yott, Patrick and Chris H. Hoebeke. "Improving Valid Access to Site-Licensed Resources." College and Research Library News 58, no. 10 (1997): pp. 698-700.

1996

Young, Jeffrey R. "Project at U. of Virginia to Study Use of Digitized Rare Books." The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 4, 1996).

Seaman, David. "Selection, Access, and Control in a Library of Electronic Texts." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 22, no. 3/4 (1996): pp. 75-84.

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Conference Presentations

2007

Daigle, Bradley. “New Modes of Information Delivery in Higher Education.” Forum sponsored by EDUCAUSE, ACRL, and the National Association of College Stores (NACS). Denver, March 2007.

Daigle. Bradley. Panelist, "Electronic Publishing and Education," with Larry Gimple, Gretchen Arnold, and David Slawson. UVA Alumni Weekend, June 2007.

Gushee, Liz. "Travels Through the Old South: Frances Benjamin Johnston and the Vernacular Architecture of Virginia." Visual Resources Association 2007. Extensive abstract available in conference program PDF.

Johnston, Leslie. "Best Practices in Developing a Digital Library Repository Using Fedora" and "How the Principles and Activities of Digital Curation Guide Repository Management and Operations." Open Repositories 2007.

Oberlander, Cyril. "Yin & Yang: Alternative Formats: Verification & Delivery Challenges." ALA 2007.

Roland, Perry and J. Stephen Downie. Recent Developments in the Music Encoding Initiative Project: Enhancing Digital Musicology and Scholarship, Digital Humanities 2007.

Sadler, Bess and Leslie Johnston. "Faceted Browsing for Combined Access to a Digital Repository and a Library Catalog." Digital Library Federation Fall 2007 Forum.

Sadler, Bess and Tigran Zargaryan. "Library-in-a-Box." code4lib 2007.

Staples, Thorny. "Digital Resources in Humanities Research: Design and Management for Flexible Use." Digital Humanities 2007.

Staples, Thorny. "The Academic Information Space: An Integrated Environment for Scholarly Content Creation and Management." New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2007.

2006

Baumann, Melinda. Panel participant, "Cross Campus Collaboration in Building Digital Image Collections: Strategies, Challenges, and Benefits." 2006 Visual Resources Association Conference.

Daigle, Bradley. "The Full Monty: Special Collections Materials Digitizing Laid Bare." UVA Scanning Forum 2006.

Daigle, Bradley and Cyril Oberlander. "Digitizing on Demand: Current & Emerging Models." UVA Scanning Forum 2006.

Gushee, Liz. Panel participant, "Cross Campus Collaboration in Building Digital Image Collections: Strategies, Challenges, and Benefits." 2006 Visual Resources Association Conference.

Johnston, Leslie. “Structuring a Digital Library Repository for the University of Virginia Library” and “DLF Aquifer: Bringing Collections to Light,” NISO Workshop on Managing Electronic Collections, 2006.

Johnston, Leslie. "The Reality Check: Notes from a Long-lived Digital Library Program." UVA Scanning Forum 2006.

Johnston, Leslie. Poster presentation, “The University of Virginia Library Implementation of a Digital Library Repository using Fedora,” 2006 Fedora Users Conference.

Oberlander, Cyril. "Collaborative Strategies: Next Steps for Service Design in Collection Development, Resource Sharing, and Communities." Presentation given at OCLC, April 19, 2006.

Oberlander, Cyril. Keynote, "Cultivating the Possibilities: Emergent Resource Sharing and Request Management Systems." Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference 2006.

Oberlander, Cyril. "Rethinking ILL ." PALINET ILL Conference 2006: Challenges and Solutions.

Oberlander, Cyril. "Transforming the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Engine." IFLA 2006.

Oberlander, Cyril and Dan Wilson. "Reinventing Resource Sharing: A Discussion of Emerging Possibilities." Virginia Library Association 2006.

Roland, Perry . "The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) " Spring 2006 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Ruotolo, Christine. "Exploring the Wiki as a Mode of Collaborative Scholarship." 2006 ALLC/ACH Conference.

Ruotolo, Christine and Erin Stalberg. "Using a Wiki for Staff Communication." Virginia Library Association 2006.

Stalberg, Erin. Instructor, "Metadata Standards and Applications." Library of Congress & the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA/ALCTS) Cataloging for the 21st Century series, SOLINET, September 2006.

Stalberg, Erin. Panel participant, "ALA/ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group Metadata Librarians Panel Discussion on Top Trends in Digital Collections and Metadata." American Library Association, June 2006.

Staples, Thornton. Opening Keynote, 2006 Fedora Users Conference.

Staples, Thornton. Panel participant, "DLF Aquifer: Bringing Collections to Light." Spring 2006 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Thomas, Bob. Instructor, "Principles of Controlled Vocabulary & Thesaurus Design." Library of Congress & the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA/ALCTS) Cataloging for the 21st Century series, SOLINET, September 2006.

2005

Daigle, Bradley. “Digital Scholarship: I'll Know it When I see it,” 2005 Digital Libraries and Free Culture Symposium; MetaScholar Initiative at Emory University.

Daigle, Bradley. “Building a Digital Library: How, What and Who’s of Outsourcing,” Virginia Libraries Association, October 2005.

Frick, Rachel and Bradley Daigle. "Building a Digital Library: How, What and Who’s of Outsourcing." Virginia Library Association 2005.

Furlough, Mike and Madelyn Wessel. "Developing Legal and Policy Frameworks to Sustain Digital Scholarship." 2005 Educause Conference.

Hoebeke, Chris and Erin Stalberg. "The Shadow Knows: Exporting Unicorn Data to Home-Grown Systems." 2005 Sirsi Superconference.

Johnston, Leslie. “Library Repositories and the Documentation of Rights.” NISO Workshop on Rights Expression, May 2005.

Johnston, Leslie. "The University of Virginia Digital Library Implementation." (PDF) 2005 Fedora Users Conference.

Johnston, Leslie. "UVa Library Repository Interface and Tool Evaluation." Spring 2005 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Oberlander, Cyril. "Automating Collaborative Strategies for Collection Development & Resource Sharing." Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference 2006.

Roland, Perry. “M2K (Music to Knowledge)” workshop instructor, 2005 International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory.

Ruotolo, Christine. "Academic Libraries and Information Communities: New Models for Supporting Digital Scholarship." 2005 ACH/ALLC Conference.

Sleeman, Allison & Judith Sedillos. "Voices of Experience: Implementing Sirsi SingleSearch and Sirsi Resolver." 2005 Sirsi Superconference.

Speer, Cundy. "Electronic Editing."  2005 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents.

Staples, Thornton. "The Sustaining Digital Scholarship Project"; September, 2005; International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Sydney, Australia.

Staples, Thornton. “Building a Digital Library Architecture with Fedora”; September, 2005,  invited speaker at Indiana University Library; Bloomington, Indiana.

Staples, Thornton. “A Digital Library Architecture for UVA,” invited speaker at a meeting of Maryland area libraries; University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April, 2005.

Staples, Thornton. “Using Fedora to Build a Digital Research Library,” 2005 American Institute of Archeologists.

Wessel, Madelyn. "Copyright in a Digital Age." 2005 Summer Educational Institute of the Visual Resources Association and Art Librarians Association.

Whiteside, Ann. "An In-depth Look at Cataloging Cultural Objects." 2005 American Library Association Annual Conference.

Whiteside, Ann. "Cataloging Cultural Objects: An Overview and Answers to Questions." Art Libraries Society of North American 2005 Conference.

2004

Grizzle, Ronda, Ross Wayland, and Chirs Wilper. "Introduction to Fedora and its Applications" -- Basic Concepts and Content Models, 2004 EDUCAUSE Conference.

Grizzle, Ronda, Ross Wayland, and Chirs Wilper. "Introduction to Fedora and its Applications" -- Basic Concepts and Content Models, 2004 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

Johnston, Leslie. "Digital Library Repository Development at the UVa Library." Fall 2004 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Johnston, Leslie. "Digital Library Repository Service Development at the UVa Library." 2004 American Society for Information Science & Technology Conference.

Johnston, Leslie. "Digital Repository Interoperability with Learning Systems." Spring 2004 Coalition for Networked Information Task Force Meeting, and Spring 2004 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Ruotolo, Christine. "Recommendations of the TEI Task Force on SGML to XML Migration." 2004 ALLC/ACH Conference.

Roland, Perry. "Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) DTD and the OCVE." 2004 Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE) meeting.

Staples, Thornton. "A Digital Library Architecture for UVa." Spring 2004 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Staples, Thornton. “Institutional Repositories.” December, 2004; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong, China.

Staples, Thornton. “Sustaining Digital Scholarship,” invited speaker, November, 2004, Kings College London; London, UK.

Staples, Thornton, and Mike Furlough. “Building Communities of Practice to Support Digital Scholarship." 2004 Educause Conference.

Thomas, Judith and Michael Tuite. "Collecting Digital Video." Spring 2004 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Whiteside, Ann and Trish Rose (UCSD). "Access to Cultural Heritage Materials in the Digital Realm." Fall 2004 Digital Library Federation Forum.

2003

Grizzle, Ronda. "Fedora and the Digital Library Architecture at UVa." Virginia Library Association 2003 Meeting.

Staples, Thornton. "Early Development Experiences with Fedora." 2003 EDUCAUSE Conference.

Johnston, Leslie. "Digital Library Services at the University of Virginia Library." 2003 LITA National Forum.

Johnston, Leslie. "Fedora and Repository Development at UVa." 2003 DASER Summit.

Johnston, Leslie. "Fedora Digital Repository Implementation at UVa--How, Why, and What We're Doing with It." Spring 2003 Digital Library Federation Forum.

Sigmon, Tim. "The Fedora Project." JA-SIG 2003 Winter Conference.

Staples, Thornton. "The Fedora Project." 2003 LITA 2003 National Forum.

Staples, Thornton and Sandra Payette. "The Fedora Project." Spring 2003 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting.

Staples, Thornton. "Toward a Digital Library: Plumbing an Information Space with Fedora."

2002

Johnston, Leslie, Ann Whiteside, Judy Thomas, "Digital Initiatives at the UVa Library - A Work in Progress." July 2002 Visual Resources Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting.

Ruotolo, Christine. "Building a multimedia haiku dictionary." 2002 New Directions in Humanities Computing Conference.

Payette, Sandra and Thornton Staples, "The Mellon Fedora Project: Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web Services." 2002 European Conference on Digital Libraries.

Staples, Thornton. "A Hierarchical Metadata System for Image Collections." 2002 ARLIS/NA / VRA Joint Conference.

Staples, Thornton. "METS: The Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard -- METS and Fedora." 2002 New Directions in Humanities Computing Conference.

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2001

Ruotolo, Christine. "Ebooks in the Classroom: A Case Study in Progress." 2001 Conference on the Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Print Collections, E-Books, and Beyond.

Seaman, David. "Build once, use many': an XML-encoded etext library for Searching, Aggregation, and multi-format output." 2001 "Standards und Methoden der Volltext-Digitalisierung" Colloquium.

2000

Furlough, Mike. "All Data are Local." 2000 American Library Association Conference.

Roland, Perry. "XML4MIR: Extensible Markup Language for Music Information Retrieval." Music IR 2000: International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 2000.

Unsworth, John, Worthy Martin, Thornton Staples and Ken Price, "Supporting Digital Scholarship." 2000 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

1999

Furlough, Mike. "Fitting In: GIS Services in a Digital Library." 1999 ESRI Users Conference.

Thomas, Judith. "Meaning and Metadata: Managing Information in a Visual Resource Reference Collection ." 1999 Joint Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.

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Press Releases

Google Books Library Project: University Of Virginia Joins Leading Research Libraries In Partnership With Google To Increase Discovery Of Knowledge -- And To Offer Library Books To Global Audience, November 14, 2006.

U.Va Library's Japanese Text Initiative Receives Grant from Toshiba Foundation, August 25, 2003

Mellon Grant lets Libraries and Computer Scientists join forces to create new solution for Digital Information Management, August 12, 2003

Huge archive of George Washington papers now available online, November 13, 2002

Library Receives $1 Million Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Digital Library Project, February, 2002

U.Va. Library to Build Information Community Digital Presence to Support American Studies, November 12, 2001

$200,000 Gift Allows Library Electronic Text Center to Fulfill Terms of NEH Challenge, August 6, 2001

Library Electronic Text Center Provides U.Va. Students with Reading Materials as E-books, May 23, 2001

Library Electronic Text Center Receives NSF Grant to Create "Middle High German Interlinked" Web Archive, March 19, 2001

Library and Monticello Receive $1.5 Million Gift to Support Information Technology, March 14, 2001

Library's Japanese Text Initiative Web Site Wins International Award, October 9, 2000

Library's Etext Center's Free Ebooks are Worldwide Hit, October 2, 2000

Geostat Center Presents Historic Maps of Charlottesville Online, August 31, 2000

U.Va. Library and ITC Host New Media Center Conference, May 25, 2000

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides the University of Virginia with a three-year grant to support digital scholarship, January 6, 2000

U.Va. Library Named to the Digital Library Federation, December 2, 1999

Robertson Media Center Celebrates Grand Opening, September 2, 1999

Library Receives $500,000 Grant from The Mellon Foundation, July 23, 1999

The Robertson Media Center is Open and Ready for Business, June 18, 1999

Library to Digitize Photos of African-American Education, January, 1999

University Confers Its Highest Honor on Kendon Stubbs, University Library Innovator, October 30, 1998

Electronic Centers Merge, August 8, 1998

U.Va. Library Gives Holiday Gift to Charlottesville: A Digitized Archive of Historic Photographs, December 16, 1997

Library Opens Digital Media & Music Center, October 16,1996

U.Va. Library to Explore Internet Future of Rare Books, August 26, 1996

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