Take a look at our list of books selected by our Librarian for English and by UVA students currently studying contemporary Jewish fiction. Library stories, Reading lists
UVA Library curators and archivists displayed Simón Bolívar’s silver and manuscripts, Fernando Bolívar’s papers, and portraits of both men that were donated to UVA in 1944 by the Venezuelan government. Culture, engagement, and community, Events, Library stories
The University of Virginia Library is delighted to announce the donation of a major gift, the Iselin Collection of Humor. Built over many years by noted collector and retired attorney Josephine Lea Iselin, the Iselin Collection will be a tremendous asset for research and learning at the University across a wide range of disciplines.
Sue Donovan was raised in Middle Tennessee, where her mother was a storyteller and worked at the county library. “We basically grew up in the library. I brought books to school to read behind the books that we were supposed to read in class,” she said. Now as Conservator for Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library, Donovan still spends her days surrounded by books, mending torn pages and repairing broken bindings. Later this month, she is offering her services to the local community, in partnership with the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (which was named the Virginia Library Association’s 2022 Library of the Year).
The UVA Library welcomes members of the Charlottesville community to celebrate eighty years of Music Department history!
Join us at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, for celebration and performances reflecting on musical recordings dating as far back as the 1940s. The celebration marks completion of a digitization project, making these recordings available for years to come. The event will take place in the auditorium of Harrison/Small; doors open at 1:30.
The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.It is presented by the University of Virginia Library and sponsored by the UVA Arts Council.
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.
