Library, Museums and Press News

Making research freely and digitally accessible to all By Allison Ebner This article also appeared in UDaily.   When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. ...Read More

By Mike Gates, Student Multimedia Design Center Level up your digital art with these drawing tools! Creating a digital painting with only a mouse tends to remove a lot of artistry that can be seen in oil, acrylic or watercolor ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Thanks to Dancing With the Stars, when one hears the term “ballroom dance,” they usually conjure images of the waltz or tango along with movies like Dirty Dancing and Shall We Dance? ...Read More

By Arline Wilson, 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, we highlight a ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Special Collections houses the Lewis Family Papers, which include materials from multiple generations of the prominent Newark family that span from 1696 to 1915. Members of the family were farmers and landholders, ...Read More

By Sharon Fitzgerald, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that 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 ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Many of the digital collections from the UD Library, Museums and Press can take us to the past almost as effectively as Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future. ...Read More

By Petra Clark, 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, we highlight a ...Read More

The UD Library, Museums and Press is actively recruiting a poet and advocate for social change to serve as poet-in-residence on the Poetry as Activism Project. The poet-in-residence will draw inspiration from our collections to create new, original work and ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation Department   When it comes to providing students with hands-on cultural experiences, the University of Delaware is a pioneer. The University has the oldest – and first – study abroad program of its ...Read More