Library, Museums and Press News

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   While one of Delaware’s nicknames, Small Wonder, may be apropos, another nickname, the First State, suggests a state rich in history, extending back to colonial days. Fortunately for scholars and even amateur ...Read More

Text and video by Jonathan Famiglietti, Student Multimedia Design Center Text is an important component of our multimedia projects, and finding new and creative ways to display text in videos is a great way to level up our projects. Adobe ...Read More

By Hillary Kativa, Department Head, Special Collections   “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, ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Thanks to a generous grant by the Friends of the Library, UD Library, Museums and Press staff in the Digital Initiatives and Preservation Department recently digitized the Reports of the Board of ...Read More

This fall, the Library, Museums and Press will launch its first two digital badges as part of UD’s digital badge program led by the Division of Professional and Continuing Studies.  Also known as micro-credentials, e-certificates and open badges, digital badges ...Read More

Beginning on August 1, 2024, all UD Library, Museums and Press digital collections currently housed on Artstor will seamlessly transition to JSTOR as the Artstor Digital Library website is officially retired.  To access digital collections currently hosted on Artstor, users ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Those familiar with the local area know of Kirkwood Highway (Route 2), a major service and commercial artery of northern Delaware. Its namesake is Captain Robert Kirkwood of Newark, who was a ...Read More

By Sharon Fitzgerald, Museums, and Mark Samuels Lasner, Special Collections “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. ...Read More

  Traci Evadne Currie, Ph.D., served as the inaugural Poetry as Activism Poet-in-Residence during the spring 2024 semester. Throughout the residency, Currie spent time in Special Collections engaging with materials related to the project’s theme for research, visiting classes across ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Willard Stewart (1915-2003), one of Wilmington, Delaware’s most prominent professional portrait photographers, became the primary photographer for the Delaware Federal Writers’ Project and photographed numerous Delaware buildings and landscapes. These photographs document ...Read More