Amanda Visconti and Shane Lin published a 20-page zine, Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts.

Laura Miller and Amanda Visconti attended a Mellon-funded invitational summit of DH center leaders.

Will Rourk was invited to the Cultural Heritage Imaging Professionals summit at the Getty in 2026.

Arin Bennett received a funding award for his collaboration supporting a UVA writing course’s exploration of MUDs (multi-user dungeons, a text-based digital game genre) for teaching composition.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti is tabling at the 3rd annual Charlottesville Zine Fest on 10/18.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was awarded one of UVA Library’s Culture, Engagement, and Community Grants to expand the capacity of the Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab public zine distro.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was awarded a monthlong artist residency & fellowship at the Penland School of Craft.

Will Rourk, Arin Bennett, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti contributed mini-exhibits on point-cloud data and zines to the public Special Collections exhibit “The ABCs of UVA Library” opening September 17 in the Harrison-Small Gallery.

Ammon Shepherd received UVA Arts Department funding for our critical humanities makerspace work.

Will Rourk was added to the Engaged UVA faculty page, “a growing directory of UVA faculty whose teaching, research, or service activities engage local or global community partners”.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti published a new, 32-page research & teaching zine, Queer Book History.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was a project team member on a newly published, 650+ item research & teaching resource: the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography.

Amanda Visconti is giving a presentation at the hybrid Digital Humanities 2025 Conference the week of July 14th (poster shared here).

Will Rourk is giving an invited talk for the University of Padua in Italy, accompanied by collaborative 3D historical documentation fieldwork with the Vincenza Field School of a rare Palladian bridge there, accompanied by a UVA Architecture faculty member and student.

Amanda Visconti taught two workshops at and attended the Mellon-funded “Building BookLabs” Symposium on humanities makerspaces and teaching/research book arts printshops; gave an invited talk on Bluesky social media for librarians for the Metropolitan NY LIbrary Council; and gave an invited talk on their Zine Bakery research for the Cal Poly Humboldt Libraries Innovation Summit.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti authored an essay on DH+AI in the new OA volume “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity”.

2 new staff-authored, free zines! Ammon Shepherd authored “How to make a zine in 6 easy steps”; Arin Bennett authored “Let’s make a MUD! Exploring text-based multiplayer worlds with GoMUD Engine”.

Our new public installation, Memory Maps, was created by Critical Makerspace Fellow Holly Zhou in collaboration with our Ammon Shepherd.

Virtual Artist-in-Residence Claudia Berger’s new data quilt and accompanying research zine are installed in the Scholars’ Lab Common room.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti published an article, “Organized futures: speculative infrastructure design for more just and joyful scholarly community”, in the Journal of Electronic Publishing special issue “On Gathering”.