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Partner Institutions
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an executive-branch, independent grant-making agency of the United States of America dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities and in those social sciences that use humanistic methods. NEH accomplishes this mission by providing grants for high-quality humanities projects to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television and radio stations, and to individual scholars.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the world’s largest medical library with more than 17 million items in its collection. A leader in information innovation, it is the developer of electronic information services used by scientists, health professionals and the public around the world. NLM makes its information services known and available with the help of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, which consists of 5,600 member institutions, including eight Regional Medical Libraries. NLM conducts and supports research that applies computer and information science to meet the information needs of clinicians, public health administrators, biomedical researchers and consumers.
Virginia Tech is a comprehensive land-grant university with the mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership. This workshop is a partnership between the Departments of History and English and the Center for Rhetoric in Society, in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Virginia Tech Publishing, in University Libraries.