Programs

In 1937, Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench began a lifelong project to document the story of the yellow fever discovery. His monumental collection of manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, artifacts, and research is the source of this digital archive, the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection.

The Scholars' Lab caters to the research, digitization, and online editing needs of faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences. Staffed with friendly, expert consultants from the UVA Library's Digital Research and Scholarship unit, the Scholars' Lab is the perfect place to take your digital scholarship to the next level. Located on the 4th floor of Alderman Library.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The goal is to get everyone in a community reading and talking about a great book with the same enthusiam they discuss the World Series, or their favorite TV show. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

The Health Sciences Library maintains this selective guide to Spanish language resources online for health care workers and consumers.

The videocassettes in the Center's lending library are available to educators in the Southeastern United States free of charge.

The Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive serves as a research facility for scholars of U.S. public policy.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are highly detailed city plans providing researchers with a wealth of information about urban change in American cities during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities is committed to humanities research in the public interest. The VFH Fellowship program offers time, space, and resources to scholars applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern.

The Health Sciences Library, with funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, is collaborating with the UVa School of Nursing to expand access to quality health information for parish nurses and their communities.

Public poison education is an important mission of the Division of Medical Toxicology. Our full-time educators and other staff are available for talks, presentations, and health fair exhibits.