Bethany Nowviskie
Director, Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia
Michael Furlough
Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications
Pennsylvania State University
Anne Houston
Director, Humanities and Social Science Services
University of Virginia
The presenters represent the ghosts of facilities past, present, and future in this discussion of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia (UVA) Library. The Scholars’ Lab was created through a partnership between UVA’s library and central information technology divisions in 2007, by merging successful centers for electronic text encoding, geospatial and statistical data, and research computing support. It now serves as a site for intellectual programming, advanced technology use, training, and collaboration around the digital humanities and social sciences, and is the public face of the Library’s Digital Research & Scholarship Department. Furlough, under whose guidance the Scholars’ Lab was created, will discuss the process of planning, design, and space renovation, as well as the drafting of agreements among collaborators. Nowviskie, his successor, will describe the current scene, including staffing, the integration of a research and development team, and popular programs such as a graduate fellowship in digital humanities. She will also address the ways in which the initial model for the Lab was adjusted to maximize the Library’s contribution to the intellectual life of the university. Houston, who is responsible for a broad range of humanities and social science services in the Library, will discuss a planned classroom renovation project designed to promote collaboration between her department and the Scholars’ Lab.
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/
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