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

Books and resources for Black History Month 2025

By UVA Library |
Featured in this post are two collections of primary sources for historical research, a biography of a Union Army soldier, and a history of the Freedman’s Bank by a UVA history professor.

Black history month, Reading lists

Newly gifted collection illustrates the story of a young refugee who escaped Nazi Germany

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
Herbert Friedman, a day shy of 14 years old, boarded a train in Austria bound for England. It was the eve of World War II, and he was one of thousands of children rescued from Nazi-controlled territory across Europe. Eighty-seven years after Friedman’s departure from Austria, his personal effects — including the number assigned to him on that fateful train — were gifted to UVA Library by his sons.

Featured resources

UVA Library receives Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award

By UVA Library |
Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, is honoring academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support inclusive excellence and belonging.

Culture, engagement, and community, News and announcements

‘It does matter’: Inhabiting Byzantine Athens

By Jeff Hill |
The Library’s Scholars’ Lab is helping Professor Fotini Kondyli with archaeological data visualization for her "Inhabiting Byzantine Athens” project.

Featured resources, Grants and special projects, Library stories

The original Cavalier Daily

By Jeff Hill |
The new College Topics online archive, from Vol. I, No. 1 of January 15, 1890 to Vol. XXVII, No. 64 of June 14, 1916, represents a run of 1,270 issues and 7,663 pages.

Featured resources, Library stories

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 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.”

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