University Librarian John Unsworth, who oversaw a four-year renovation to the main UVA library and a two-year pandemic that shut down the libraries and all of Grounds, has announced he will retire at the end of the academic year.
In nature, bright colors are often indicative of danger — poisonous spiders and insects (and their imitators) often adorn themselves with electric coloring as a warning to potential predators. Turns out, some books inadvertently do the same. Read more about the Poison Book Project, and efforts at UVA Library to find and identify these unique volumes.
We talked to Kristen Schwendinger, Director of Research Integrity and Ethics at UVA’s Office of the Vice President for Research, to help us understand the intersection of data management and research integrity. Kristen provides research ethics advice that benefits all data stakeholders. Love Data Week, Sustainable scholarship
Thorud, an Associate Librarian in UVA Library’s Robertson Media Center, urges students and faculty to come by and learn about filmmaking, podcasting, and music production.
Featured in this post are two collections of primary sources for historical research, a biography of a Union Army soldier, and a history of the Freedman’s Bank by a UVA history professor.
Leo Lo, dean of libraries at UVA and special advisor to the provost on AI literacy, told VPM News, “There are efforts to send a more university-wide AI vision. But for the last several years, different schools have been experimenting, trying different things.”
University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Leo S. Lo finds it useful to sort AI answers into an “answer typography” of four broad types: factual, interpretive, constructive and strategic.
UVA Library is combining tradition with technology in an effort researchers say will help preserve and expand access to Guna culture for a global audience.
The UVA project took about two years and involved research in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library; trips to Monticello, Montpelier and Highland; and working with the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
The Library of Virginia and the University of Virginia will host a talk in late September about the role libraries play in an increasingly AI-driven world.
