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Explore podcasts, literature, and archives depicting a rich array of LGBTQ+ experiences

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
Across the country, people are gathering with parades, events, parties, and other celebrations to honor the history and impact of the LGBTQ+ community. This post highlights podcasts, literature, and archives for Pride month, 2023.

Featured resources, Pride month, Reading lists

Join us for the Holsinger Studio Family Celebration on June 11

By Molly Minturn |
Celebrate the final weeks of UVA Library’s “Visions of Progress” exhibition with an afternoon of tintype portrait photography, a historic clothing collection show-and-tell, a zine workshop, free books, and more.
Events, Exhibits

What recent Supreme Court rulings on copyright and terrorism mean for libraries

By Molly Minturn |
Brandon Butler, the University of Virginia Library’s Director of Information Policy, walks us through last week's rulings.
Library stories

Fine Arts Library closed for the summer

By Jeff Hill |
The Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library will be closed from May 19 to Aug. 15 due to construction on the patio surrounding the building.
News and announcements, Service changes

7 Books (and a movie) to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

By Molly Minturn |
Check out art created by, for, and about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, featuring everything from a graphic novel on surfing to a film about androids and grief.
Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month, Reading lists

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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