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

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

A day in the life of a Reference Librarian

By Molly Minturn |
UVA Library’s reference team had a busy 2024 with the opening of Shannon Library and media attention surrounding the library’s last active card catalog.

Featured resources, Library stories, Staff accomplishments

Featured essay: “Just the Way You Left It”

By UVA Library |
The piece below comes to us from UVA instructor Charlotte Matthews. Reflecting on her time in the UVA Library, Matthews helps us feel the warmth of an old library; now new again.

Renovation

Behind the scenes of cultural heritage imaging

By Molly Minturn |
Take a peek into how the Library's Digital Production Group captures and documents historic objects.

Featured resources, Sustainable scholarship

10,000 miniature books — and counting!

By UVA Library |
In 2024, a major milestone was reached as McGehee Rare Book Librarian Kim Cull cataloged the 10,000th volume in the McGehee Miniature Book Collection.

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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