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Celebrate the Fourth at Special Collections with crafts, music, and history

By UVA Library |
Revolutionary Printing: July 4, 2026
Revolutionary Printing: A free celebration of the materials, crafts, and stories of the founding era offers fun for the whole family on July 4.

Events, Exhibits, Library stories, News and announcements

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 lists

UVA, FAIR, and LibraData: 10 years of making data more open

By UVA Library |
A graphic illustrating how the use of LibraOpen has increased since 2015.
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 |
A group of graduates in caps and gowns walk across a grassy area. They are holding colorful balloons, and the sun shines through the trees in the background.
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 |
A collection of worn and aged books is stacked vertically and horizontally in a wooden crate. One visible book cover reads "The Haxall-Crenshaw Company" followed by "Byrd Island Patent Family Flour." The books show signs of wear, with some pages and covers exhibiting creases and discoloration.
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

UVA Library news from around the world

  • WRIC ABC 8News
    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.
  • UVA Magazine

    How four UVA alumni helped shape the “golden age” of puzzles. Plus: Play our three UVA-themed games (with Library-related clues!).

  • UVA Today

    “The idea is to train an artificial intelligence model to help with this speech recognition into text, and that requires a significant data set,” said Lisa Blackmore, the faculty director of UVA Librarys Digital Humanities Center. “This project is a great example of how AI can be used in experimental and creative ways as part of socially engaged research.”

  • Virginia Living

    “Reading feeds every creative community,” says Dr. Leo Lo, UVA’s university librarian and dean of libraries. “It expands what people can imagine, improves how they communicate, and trains the patience needed to make original work. Libraries keep that creative fuel available to everyone.”

  • 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.

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