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Need a laugh? CartoonStock is here for you

By Molly Minturn |
A black-and-white cartoon illustration featuring five separate scenes: a person driving a tractor, a person walking a dog, a group of individuals sitting around a conference table with a person standing at the head, a bird singing on a branch, and a bear sitting on a bed with a suitcase nearby.
The database CartoonStock, now accessible through UVA Library, contains more than 750,000 cataloged and searchable cartoons first published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Wired, Mad, National Lampoon, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Featured resources

Celebrate the Fourth at Special Collections with crafts, music, and history

By UVA Library |
Revolutionary Printing: July 4, 2026
Revolutionary Printing: A free celebration of the materials, crafts, and stories of the founding era offers fun for the whole family on July 4.

Events, Exhibits, Library stories, News and announcements

7 books to celebrate Pride Month

By UVA Library |
7 books to celebrate Pride Month
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. To observe it, UVA Library staff have a wide variety of book recommendations, from literary fiction to biography to recent works of queer American history.

Pride month, Reading list

UVA, FAIR, and LibraData: 10 years of making data more open

By UVA Library |
Making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) is key to good data management, so that research data is easier to access and use. LibraData, UVA’s data repository, offers a variety of ways to support this critical goal.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Featured resources, Sustainable scholarship

Shelving the books, walking the Lawn

By Molly Minturn |
A group of graduates in caps and gowns walk across a grassy area. They are holding colorful balloons, and the sun shines through the trees in the background.
With Final Exercises in the past, we put together a Q&A with a few graduating Library student workers about their plans for the future, their favorite part of working at the Library, and more.

Library stories, Staff accomplishments

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