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

Need a laugh? CartoonStock is here for you

By Molly Minturn |
A black-and-white cartoon illustration featuring five separate scenes: a person driving a tractor, a person walking a dog, a group of individuals sitting around a conference table with a person standing at the head, a bird singing on a branch, and a bear sitting on a bed with a suitcase nearby.
The database CartoonStock, now accessible through UVA Library, contains more than 750,000 cataloged and searchable cartoons first published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Wired, MAD, National Lampoon, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Featured resources

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

UVA Library news from around the world

  • NBC29 News

    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.

  • UVA Today

    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.

  • 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 Library’s 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.”

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