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

UVA librarians share their favorite books read in 2023

By Molly Minturn |
Take a look at our extensive list and check some books out for the holidays.

Library stories, Reading lists

Open Access Week postscript: The best of both worlds with Aperio and Diamond OA

By Molly Minturn |
The Library’s Director of Information Policy explains the importance of developing publication models that provide services authors and readers value without exploiting either group in the way that commercial publishers too often do.

Featured resources, Open Access week, Sustainable scholarship

5 Books for Native American Heritage Month

By Molly Minturn |
From “Killers of the Flower Moon” to a pandemic novel by Louise Erdrich, our librarians have recommendations for exploring American Indian culture and history.

Culture, engagement, and community, National Indigenous / Native American heritage month, Reading lists

Open Access is Free, Actually

By Molly Minturn |
The Library’s Director of Information Policy highlights the difference between open access as a copyright choice, open access as a compliance step, and open access as a business model for commercial publishers.

Featured resources, Open Access week, Sustainable scholarship

How the Library supports open publishing

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
This year’s theme for Open Access Week is “Community over Commercialization.” The UVA Library supports quite a few programs around open publishing, and aims to facilitate information-sharing through tools, assistance, and the power of the academic community.
Featured resources, Open Access week, Sustainable scholarship

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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