Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/University of Pittsburgh

About the University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (aka PITT) is a state-related research university in western Pennsylvania. It was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, and evolved into the University of Pittsburgh in 1908. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and serves 28,766 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The university has an annual operating budget of approximately $2 billion that includes nearly $900 million in research and development expenditures. A member of the Association of American Universities, Pitt is the sixth largest recipient of federally sponsored research funding among U.S. universities in 2013 and is a major recipient of research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Pitt has been placed among the top public universities in the United States and has been listed as a "best value" in higher education by multiple publications.

Overview of library resources

 * The Archives of Industrial Society (AIS) largely documents the rapid growth of Pittsburgh as a post-industrial society. Some of the records which best reflect this include the Allegheny Conference on Community Development Records, Pennsylvania Economy League Records, Park Martin Papers, Edward Smuts Papers, Neighborhood Centers Association Records, Kingsley House Association Records, Brashear Association Records, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools Records.


 * The Archives of Scientific Philosophy: serves as the legacy of the major philosophers of science of the 20th century and strives to collect the personal papers, professional papers, manuscripts, and other working materials of leading philosophers of science or scientist/philosophers.


 * The Ford E. and Harriet R. Curtis Theatre Collection: serves as an archive of theatre history and the performing arts in western Pennsylvania, especially the Pittsburgh region. The collection consists of several thousand volumes of play scripts, acting editions, histories, and critical works of the theatre and drama, nearly 500,000 theatre programs, plus periodicals, posters, ephemera, rare scrapbooks, personal papers, organizational records, and over 20,000 photographs that illustrate and illuminate theatre history in Pittsburgh from the mid-nineteenth century until present day.


 * The Literary and Historical Manuscripts Collections: consists of the manuscript records of novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, and other significant literary or historical figures such as Hervey Allen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, and Gerald Stern. Collections include handwritten, typed, or word-processed versions of novels, stories, poems, scripts, articles and books as originally produced by these authors, often in multiple drafts and annotated, as well as correspondence, diaries, journals, photographs, and memorabilia.


 * The William M. Darlington collection: consists books, manuscripts, atlases, and maps which are strong in colonial American history, especially as it relates to Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley. Example exhibits and guides include Discovery and Exploration and William M. Darlington: Selections from a Collector's Life.


 * The Frick Fine Arts Library and University Art Gallery, both located in the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh, contain valuable information on the architectural history of the Frick Fine Arts Building, the permanent collection in the University Art Gallery, as well as the Nicholas Lochoff frescos. Architectural elevations are currently being digitized.


 * Over 1000 finding aids online that describe our archival and manuscript holdings; some have links to digitized objects.


 * Over 1.5 million images online via Historic Pittsburgh, Documenting Pitt, Darlington Digital Library, and our general listing of digitized collections.


 * The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh publishes more than 35 scholarly, peer-reviewed online journals. We publish with partners from the Pitt community as well as scholars from universities and scholarly societies around the world.

Position announcements
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