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

Shannon Library renovation architects honored with 2025 Palladio Award

By Molly Minturn |
HBRA Architects received a national architecture award last week for their work on the Edgar Shannon Library at the University of Virginia.

News and announcements, Renovation

“Bridge of Dreams”: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage month

By UVA Library |
UVA librarians recommend books ranging from medieval Japanese epic “The Tale of Genji” to “Everything I Never Told You,” Celeste Ng’s debut novel.

Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month, Reading lists

What does it mean to practice Judaism in America?

By UVA Library |
In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, two librarians asked Jewish scholars and community leaders for book recommendations that help explore a simple but profound question: What does it mean to practice Judaism in America today?

Culture, engagement, and community, Jewish American Heritage Month, Reading lists

Student Library workers featured in UVA Today

By Molly Minturn |
Andrew Spencer and SuLing Llanes-Trexler, who will graduate this month, were profiled in a UVA Today article titled “UVA Students Hit the Right Note After a Rocky Start.”

In the news, Interns and fellows, Library stories, Staff accomplishments

UVA Library Special Collections: 2025 exhibitions overview

By Jeff Hill |
A look at current and upcoming exhibitions at the UVA Special Collections Library.

Exhibits, Featured resources

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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