News – University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press

Feb

Home Improvement with Leon De Valinger

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation Thanks to a generous endowment from the Friends of the UD Library, a curated selection of materials from the Leon De Valinger Papers in our Special Collections was recently digitized and made ... Read More

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Feb

A Guide to Video Transitions: The Dissolve

This post originally appeared in the Multimedia Tips and Tricks blog (SMDC), which was reorganized into Research Tech Tips as of September 2025. The services described in this article are still available through the Research Data and Design Commons (RDDC). ... Read More

An overhead image of business people at work. A few of them are dissolving out of view.

Feb

A View from the Vault: The Afro-American Press and Its Editors

By Britney Henry, Special Collections Graduate Assistant “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we ... Read More

The book The Afro-American Press and Its Editors standing upright

Feb

A Guide to Video Transitions: The Hard Cut

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Feb

University of Delaware Press Receives NEH Grant to Support Open Access Publishing

The University of Delaware Press was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to publish an open access digital version of Bruce Hayes’ acclaimed book Hostile Humor in Renaissance France under a Creative Commons license. ... Read More

Book cover for Hostile Humor in Renaissance France by Bruce Hayes

Jan

UD Library, Museums and Press Migrates to OpenAthens for E-Resource Authentication

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press will begin using the OpenAthens platform to access electronic resources, including databases, e-books, journals and streaming video, on January 30, 2024. Access to these resources was previously managed through EZProxy. The move ... Read More

Jan

Mind Your Media: Keeping Data Safe for Multimedia Projects

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Jan

How to Create an Overlay in Adobe Premiere

Screenshot of the process of adding a video overlay in Premiere

Jan

Three Exhibitions in Delaware Opening Early 2024 to Honor Artistic Life and Legacy of James E. Newton

Celebrate the artistic life and legacy of James E. Newton—painter, printmaker, public intellectual, educator, and professor of African American history and art—with three exhibitions on view in locations throughout Delaware in early 2024. These exhibitions highlighting Newton’s legacy will be ... Read More

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Jan

Figure Skating into the Olympics via Delaware

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation Did you know Newark and the University of Delaware were the training locations for several Olympic-level figure skaters from the mid-1990s to roughly 2010? Take a look at the athletes below and ... Read More