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Volume 46 ■ Number 6 ■ March 2004
For the Faculty and Staff of the University of Miami
www.miami.edu/veritas
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD: PROGRAM REACHES OUTTOUM NEIGHBORS
$1.5 million gift will help create a digital resource for faculty and students
Richter Library fast-forwards into the digital age

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ith the launch of “College-town: Your ’Cane Community,” the University of Miami invites home-owners in the immediate vicinity of the Coral Gables campus to take advantage of the athletic, educational, and entertainment activities at the University.
By presenting the ’Cane Community Card, College-town neighbors can eruoy discounts and access to events at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre and Alvin Sherman Jogging trails are	Family Stage, Bill
an enticement for	Cosford Cinema,
UM neighbors.	and other cultural
venues. The card
also entitles neighbors to membership at the Wellness Center, as well as discounts on purchases at the Campus Bookstore.
Learn more about the comprehensive benefits program by visiting www.miami.edu/collegetown.
COMMUNITY FORUM SERIES TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF DEMOCRACY IN MIAMI
As the nation prepares for the
presidential elections in fall 2004, the University of Miami, which is to host the first presidential debate on September 30, will present events that explore locally oriented issues of national importance.
The Community Forum Series is designed to bring together students, residents, experts, activists, and local officials to address a variety of often overlooked topics in understanding the state of democracy in contemporary Miami.	• v. c
Events in the series include.“Llp From Cynicism: Politics, Campaign Finance, and Civic Activism in Miami-Dade County” (March 29);/‘dettirig Beyond Getting Along: Facipg the Diversity of Miami-Dade’s Ethical Traditions” (April 12); and “Planning and the Public Voice: Charrettes, Democracy, and the Growth Management Process” (May 24).
Ail programs run from 7 to 9 p.m. and are held at the Wesley Center,
1210 Stanford Drive, on UM’s Coral Gables campus. For more information, contact Gregory Bush at 284-6406.
University
Librarian William D.
Walker has secured a $1.5 million gift that will allow the Otto G. Richter Library to create an Internet-based digital storehouse of art images and descriptive information.
UM Imagebase will digitize images from the extensive slide collections of the Department of Art and Art History, the School of Architecture, and the Lowe Art Museum and will help University of Miami faculty and scholars prepare lectures and conduct research, as well as aid students in the learning process.
Walker, who assumed his new post this past summer after serving as senior vice president and the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries for The New York Public Library system, says UM Imagebase repositions the Richter as a library on the move. “This puts us on a par with Princeton, Duke, and Cornell,” he says, referring to other universities that also have implemented similar projects.
“Our ultimate goal is to create one central resource that will meet the needs of UM faculty, scholars, and students in the arts, humanities, and beyond,” says Walker. “Research libraries, skilled at organizing print materials, are now equally at home in managing and distributing electronic information. The UM Imagebase enables the library to build upon its already impressive reputation in creating and managing digital resources.” While the Richter Library is only in the preliminary phases of the project and won’t begin digitizing images until this summer, it hopes to have the first set of images available for viewing over the Web by fall 2004, giving faculty and students an early glimpse of what is to come.
Right now, software and format tools for UM Imagebase are being developed. Project developers want to create a digital database that allows users to search for images by different categories and topics, and view and analyze images by zooming and panning. They also want to create a

UM Imagebase: Director of digital library programs and technology Jeff Barry, left, and William Walker display an example of the types of images that will be available through a new online digital database.
resource that will sustain its usefulness for generations to come, Walker says.
UM Imagebase will not digitize well-known, popular works of art like the
Mona Lisa, which is already in digital format, but will focus on images needed by UM faculty for their teaching.
And the database will keep growing because other images will be selected for digitizing even after the first group of initial slides are completed. Images from other schools, colleges, and
departments also will be added.
Walker says that UM Imagebase could also serve as a companion
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Agreement reached on student apartments
fter a year of negotiations, the JL jLUniversity of Miami and the UM Neighbors Homeowners Association have reached a mutual agreement on the 2004 development plans for the University Village student apartments.
Terms of the agreement call for housing 800 upper class, law, graduate, and medical students and moving the student housing portion of the plan one block away from private homes.
Plans for University Village—which will feature two- to four-story buildings, each housing one-, two-, and four-bedroom apartments—also include parking for students and other University guests, with the parking garage being moved from the edge to the center of the complex.
Residential streets near the project will remain open, and the University will build up to 16 single-family town homes between Mataro and Comiche Avenues that will be occupied by faculty, administrators, or adult employees of the University.
In addition, students who live at University Village will not have daytime parking privileges on the central campus during the school week but must use the shuttle system or walk to campus.
“Both the University and our neighbors care deeply and are committed to our Coral Gables neighborhood,
and we look forward to creating an apartment village that meets the high standards of our community and serves a crucial need for our students,” says UM President Donna E. Shalala.
The UM Neighbors Homeowners Association had objected to the original plans of the estimated $40 million University Village, voicing their concerns at a series of town meetings. Over
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New plan: University Village will house 800 upper class, law, graduate, and medical students.
the past year, the organization has worked with UM officials through a mediation process to address its objections. The association has expressed its support for the 2004 plan.
The University has had a long-standing need for student housing and submitted plans to the City of Coral Gables in 1992 for University Village as part of its long-range campus development.
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