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

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

UVA Library news from around the world

  • The Cavalier Daily

    One initiative that disseminates knowledge to the public carried out by the University includes Aperio — the peer-reviewed, open-access press supported by the U.Va. Library.

  • Fine Books & Collections
    Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has revealed its public summer lecture series focusing on book history, bibliography, and print culture.
  • Inside Higher Ed

    Institutions including the University of Virginia are launching AI initiatives to prepare students for a changing early-career job market.

  • UVA Today

    UVA Today asked the University of Virginia Library staff to recommend titles for your next road trip, including beach reads and audiobooks perfect for the drive.

  • The Cavalier Daily

    Over the past four years, the Class of 2026 has built a sense of community through numerous events and undertakings — from planning First Year Formal to hosting study sessions in Clemons Library during finals — and now, in their fourth and final year, they built this bucket-list to guide them to the very end.

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