News, announcements, updates, and happenings in the UVA Library

From “Bridgerton” to bookbinding: Here are 5 upcoming events at UVA Library

By Molly Minturn |
Check out five upcoming events for those who love crafting, bookbinding, spatial mapping, and more.

Events

Beyond Shannon: Get to know UVA’s 6 Library locations

By Molly Minturn |
Learn more about UVA Library’s six locations around Grounds, each filled with books, resources, and quiet study spaces!

Featured resources, Library stories, Renovation

Full house: Books moved back into Shannon Library

By Molly Minturn |
UVA Today recently covered the Library’s “book-move-back” project, which entailed moving more than a million books back into Shannon and Clemons from the Ivy Stacks.

In the news, Library stories, News and announcements, Renovation

Celebrate Disability Pride Month with these books and resources

By UVA Library |
To observe Disability Pride Month this July, the Library is highlighting a number of resources exploring disability justice and activism that we hold in our collection, including anthologies and essays, memoirs, and a primary source database.

Disability pride and awareness, Reading list

Free for all: How the Library assists faculty with open educational resources

By Molly Minturn |
Open educational resources include everything from textbooks to videos to assessment tools – and they’re free and specifically licensed to be available for sharing, adapting, and reuse. UVA Library offers resources, tools, and consultations for instructors interested in incorporating OER into their course materials.

Featured resources, Sustainable scholarship

UVA Library news from around the world

  • Inc.

    “The same quality that makes a book valuable as training data makes it likelier to be scarce in the world,” Leo Lo, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia, told Inc.

  • Fine Books & Collections

    David R. Whitesell, who retired as curator in UVAs Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in 2022, explains how pioneers of photographic processes in the 19th century changed how books were illustrated.

  • UVA Today

    Pat Oliphant, whose syndicated political cartoons anchored editorial pages in newspapers across the country from 1965 to 2015 – many of which are part of his work archived in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library –died Monday at the age of 90.

  • UVA Today

    The second floor of Shannon Library at the University of Virginia is home to a place where books go to get well. Or, at a minimum, usable.

  • UVA Today

    While Jeffersonian in appearance, the new roofs incorporate modern technology. ... Will Rourk, a technology specialist with the UVA Library, [used] his laser scanner at the roof project to take 3D scans.

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