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January 24, 2025 update: Staff grants awarded

Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA CESL grant sending funds to community partners working on preservation and use of historic Black Virginian school buildings. Arin Bennett is a collaborator on a successful UVA Thrive grant with Devin Donovan on a ENWR class MUD/MOO project.

January 24, 2025

Is It Data?

Snow is on the ground, but I bundled up to make it to campus for week two of “Data for the Rest of Us,” a semester-long, two-credit introduction to data literacy from a humanities perspective. The general arc of the course takes students through all parts of the data construction…

January 22, 2025 update: Staff zine publications

Amanda Visconti wrote and published 3 zines in the past month: “Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too “, “The Good Pets of UVA Library “ (with contributions from UVA Library colleagues), and “DIY Web Archiving” (collaboration w/Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, and Ilya Kremer).

January 22, 2025

Mappily Ever After, a GIS Workshop story

Or is it Happily ever Mapter? Definitely not Mappily Ever Mapter though, that would be silly. Anyway, if your goal is to learn GIS, this workshop series may have the fairytale ending you’re hoping for. If nothing else, you’ll leave these sessions feeling spatial. Spring will allegedy be springing -…

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