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

From April Fools to May the Fourth: Here are 6 upcoming events at UVA Library

By Molly Minturn |
Events include spring holiday crafting, experimental cinema screenings, and a silent disco in the Reference Room.

Events

Check your email: Please support the Library by completing our user survey!

By UVA Library |
Much of UVA received an email from UVA Library on March 3, “Share Your Feedback on UVA Library Services.” The email links to a survey that helps us to better understand the needs of our University, and make future plans based on those needs. Please complete the survey today!

News and announcements

Books, films, and a reading challenge for Women’s History Month

By UVA Library |
Our list of recommendations includes a mysterious novel on grief, a biography of Thomas Jefferson's daughter, and a documentary about trailblazing athletes.
Reading lists, Women's history month

Call for proposals for UVA instructors and for visiting researchers to Special Collections

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
The Library welcomes applications to four programs with application deadlines in March — two for UVA-affiliated instructors and researchers, two for non-UVA researchers who are seeking to pursue study in Special Collections.

Grants and special projects, News and announcements

‘Free to Be’: New art installation in Shannon investigates our shared Charlottesville landscape

By Molly Minturn |
UVA art professor Maria Villanueva’s collages of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the area’s urban spaces are presented on giant scrolls and welcome viewers to find their own favorite place in the visual narrative.

Art in libraries, Culture, engagement, and community, Events, Exhibits, Grants and special projects, Library stories, News and announcements

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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