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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 |
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

‘Buried Cause’: In a new book, two UVA librarians analyze the unearthed Robert E. Lee monument cornerstone box

By Molly Minturn |
Conservator Sue Donovan was on the team who opened the 134-year-old commemorative box that had been buried beneath the Lee statue. Historian Ervin L. Jordan Jr. analyzed the contents inside for clues about the lives of Black Richmonders in the 1890s. Both had much to say about what they found.

Staff accomplishments

Books, films, and archives to mark Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

By UVA Library |
Three librarians recommend everything from Akira Kurosawa’s thriller “Rashomon” to “Crying in H Mart,” a memoir by indie-pop singer Michelle Zauner.

Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month, Reading list

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