Presentations about Special Collections and its Internet Activities (McMillan)
"Digital Images and Special Collections on the World Wide Web" for the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference (MARAC) annual meeting, May 1996, College Park, MD
"VIVA Special Collections: Web Design and Content Considerations" for the Mid-Atlantic
Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) annual meeting, May 1996, College Park, MD
IAWA for the International Archive of Women in Architecture Board in the New Media Center,
for the IAWA's symposium and 10th annual meeting, Oct. 22, 1995
Presentations about the Special Collections Department
"Civil War, Genealogy, and Special Collections" (Smith)
for the Livesay Historical Society, July 1995
"Preserving Personal Papers" (Smith)
for the Coal Mining Heritage Association of Montgomery County, October 1995
"What is an Archive?" (Smith)
for the Blacksburg New School 3rd and 4th graders, October 1995
"Civil War and the Billings' Materials" (Smith)
for the Civil War Weekend (two groups of about 60 each), March 1996
"Special Collections at VT's University Libraries (Smith and Kennelly)
for the New Dimensions, April 9, 1996
"Special Collections Department" (Smith and Kennelly)
for the University Libraries' Reference Department, June 27, 1996
1996/1997 at the Special Collections Department
- Use the Wallace Foundation Grant to enhance the University Libraries and its Special
Collections Department's Civil War resources by purchasing, preserving, and digitizing
unique materials
- Use VIVA funds ($20,000) to enhance online information resources primarily for the
citizens of the Commonwealth by digitizing regional history materials (principally from the
railroad archives)
- Identify all digital images for the Digital ImageBase
- Add images of unique materials to the Digital ImageBase
Special Collections Department
1995/1996
access to manuscripts, images, archives, and rare books
4,500 ft. manuscripts |
3,000 digital images |
1,000 ft. archival records |
45,000 rare books |
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