Scholarly Communications

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This community hosts many of the historical documents resulting from Virginia Tech Libraries' exploration beginning in the late 1980s of scholarly communications.

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American Homespun for the President's House: Ellen Axson Wilson and the Decoration of the Blue Mountain Room
Wilson, Kathleen Curtis (Woodrow Wilson House, 1998)
An Exhibition Organized by the Woodrow Wilson House, A National Trust Historic Site, October 23, 1997 - April 20, 1998.
As an artist and a southerner, Ellen Axson Wilson, the wife of the twenty-eighth president of the United States, saw first hand the expert craftsmanship of women during her travels to the North Carolina mountains and understood their struggle as artists and wage earners. By decorating the White House with handcrafted fabrics, she focused wide spread attention on the lives, financial needs, and talents of mountain women. The exhibition Homespun for the President's House - Ellen Axson Wilson and the Decoration of the Blue Mountain Room is a unique opportunity to look inside the most famous house in the land for a better understanding of the compassionate spirit of artist Ellen Axson Wilson and to view striking examples of early twentieth-century American hand weaving by two extremely gifted Appalachian women, Allie Josephine Mast and Elmeda McHargue Wallzer.
Annual Report 2003/2004 for the Digital Library and Archives
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2004-07-04)
Architecture Image Project
Powell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-06-10)
In the Spring of 1996, a group of Library faculty met with photographic services (the imaging group: Annette Burr, Gail McMillan, Gary Worley) to develop a plan to support the digitization, archiving, identification and long-term storage of slide collections. This group decided that they would launch a pilot project during the summer. Photographic Services would scan 200 slides place them on a server in Scholarly Communications. SCP staff would design and implement a prototype workflow, storage, retrieval and annotation mechanism using a metadata scheme developed by this group. This document describes a preliminary proposal for implementing the requested prototype. The system must be fully in place by late summer 1996 so that teaching faculty can use it to develop course materials for the fall.
Blacksburg High School: FORCON Report
Moncure, Henry W.; FORCON International (Virginia Tech, 2010-06-10)
Per your request, FORCON traveled to the Insured’s property located at 520 Patrick Henry Drive in Blacksburg, Virginia, to investigate the origin and cause of the roof collapse. We also investigated the structural integrity of the gymnasium floor and first floor supporting walls that remained under the collapsed roof structure. The date of our site visits were March 1, May 10, and May 19, 2010. The following report provides our general observations and final conclusions.
Digital Images for the Virginia Tech Digital Library
McMillan, Gail; Burr, Annette; Worley, Gary M. (Virginia Tech, 1996-03-20)
All images photographed or copied by a unit of Information Systems will be scanned and contributed to the Virginia Tech Digital Library. The digital images will be browsable and findable through word searching textual descriptors. The university community will be able to view digital images online according to fair use guidelines for nonprofit, academic libraries. They will be available for faculty to incorporate in their course materials and to students for study and research purposes. Outside the university community, not all digital images will be accessible via the Internet; some will only be available at library workstations and campus computer labs. There will be unlimited Internet access to digital images when the university owns the copyright. No one will be charged a fee to view thumbnails, but there will be a charge to have a reproduction made and this will have implications for the electronic billing tactical plan.
Digital Libraries and Software Agents
Powell, James (Virginia Tech, 1997)
Digital libraries will need digital, or software, agents to perform many important tasks such as communication with the user, acquisition of new information and maintenance of the links to that information (assuming that it is external to the structure of the digital library). Fortunately software agents are a diverse breed and there are many different types of agents which can be used to perform those tasks.
Digital Library and Archives
McMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech Libraries, 1999)
Digital Library and Archives
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2000)
Online access to information increasingly spans the gap between traditional and innovative resources that are the Digital Library and Archives. Changing our name from Scholarly Communications Project was not too difficult and with excellent students we were able to unify the department's Web presence with a new department logo and uniform footers. This year we increased the number of Web sites hosting information; the usability of several DLA systems such as the IAWA Biographic Database; ETD processing, the VT ImageBase; and survey data gathering and results displays;. One huge advantage of the survey system is that it continually gathers data and tabulates results as each survey is completed, providing immediate feed-back. This would be particularly invaluable if there was more time and staff to implement what we learn from DLA clients! Among our major acquisitions was the Judge William M. Harris Collection of correspondence, poetry, and maps; the Peacock-Harper Culinary Collection; and new additions to the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Digital Library and Archives 2006/07
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2007)
Digital Library and Archives Annual Report 1998/1999
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 1999)
Digital Library and Archives annual report 2002/2003
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2003)
Digital Library and Archives Annual Report Highlighting FY 2011
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2011)
This report highlights DLA’s accomplishments July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011.
Digital Library and Archives Annual Report: 2000/2001
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2001)
Digital Library and Archives FY 2008 Annual Report
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2008)
This report documents how DLA’s activities met the goals of the university’s strategic plan in 2007-2008.
Digital Library and Archives FY 2009 Annual Report: June 2008 - May 2009
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2009)
Digital Library and Archives FY 2010 Annual Report
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2010)
DLA Annual Report 2004/05
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2005)
DLA Annual Report 2005/06
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2006)
DLA Annual Report 2011/12
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012)
This report highlights DLA’s activities for 2011-2012.
DLA Annual Report for 2001/2002
(Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Tech's University Libraries, 2002)
For the first time since the Scholarly Communications Project and the Special Collections Department merged, the Digital Library and Archives began to work as a cohesive unit. With all vacancies filled and the addition of term appointments, the department has had time to plan (see DLA Goals App. A) for the future instead of just reacting to current demands or crises. DLA preserved, organized, and made accessible historical and current resources, and provided reference, instruction, and access to the unique resources in our rare books, manuscript, and archival collections. In addition, DLA worked with the university community to help them create online resources and to use digital library resources and services. More ETDs and digital images were available through systems designed and maintained by the department. Like University Libraries, DLA is dedicated to meeting the university community’s information, curricular, and research needs wherever they are located. DLA collaborated with members of the university community to collectively position the university as a top-tier research institution.