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

“Stolen books,” bad faith, and fair use

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
It’s Fair Use Week! UVA Library’s Director of Information Policy, Brandon Butler, penned a piece for Harvard’s Fair Use Week series that examines the origins of AI training data and its intersections with court cases such as those around HathiTrust and Google Books.

From eclipse prep to Pi Day: Here are 5 upcoming events at UVA Library

By Molly Minturn |
Check out five upcoming events for those who love reading, crafting, eclipses, and more. All Library events are free.

Culture, engagement, and community, Events

Updates from Alderman: Books in stacks, a new cafe, and more

By Molly Minturn |
According to UVA students, Alderman Library is “the new place to be on Grounds.” Read our story to find out why.

In the news, Library stories, Renovation

Rich data illuminates stories of Charlottesville and beyond

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
It’s Love Data Week! Senior Research Data Management Librarian Laura Hjerpe shares some resources for using data to better understand central Virginia and the lives of its inhabitants.

Featured resources, Love Data Week

Trio of exhibitions examines Black life 100 years ago, with a focus on Central Virginia

By Molly Minturn |
As we continue celebrating Black history, we’re taking a look at how the success of “Visions of Progress” inspired the UVA Library curatorial team to continue examining Black life a century ago through two more exhibitions.

Black history month, Culture, engagement, and community, Exhibits, Library stories

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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