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[size=0.9em]DLA, a department in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, evolved from the Scholarly Communications Project (SCP) begun in 1989. Our focus is to work with the university community to host born-digital works, beginning in 1991 with faculty-edited electronic journals. In 1995 we began envisioning ETDs completed by VT graduate students. In 1996 SCP and the Special Collections Department merged to enhance access to rare books, manuscript collections, and the University Archives. We formally renamed the combined departments in 2000 the Digital Library and Archives.
[size=0.9em]In 2007 DLA and Special Collections returned to being separate departments while continuing to collaborate to enhance online access to the library's unique and rare archival resources. The VT ImageBase hosts historical photographs as well as more contemporary images from the International Archive of Women in Architecture. DLA also created and maintains online resources such as the IAWA Biographical Database and the Survey Database where data is both collected and displayed. In April 2007 we began gathering documentation from the out-pouring of sympathy, some of which is available from the VT Memorial Archive, a collaboration with Rutgers University. DLA is in the process of developing the Prevail Archives for the university's historical materials related to those tragic events.
[size=0.9em]DLA hosts a growing number of faculty projects and VT publications, including Employee of the Week.  www.mfzyw.net收集
[size=0.9em]DLA also collaborates regionally, beginning in 1992 when we hosted the first online news report from the Roanoke Times. Since 1995 the public has had access to the news as reported by local-CBS affiliate WDBJ7. DLA also provides a home to the South Atlantic Humanities Center and works with other universities through an award from the Library of Congress to develop digital preservation strategies tested in the MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture.