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

Find diasporic streaming content this Black History Month 2022 and beyond!

By Mitch Farish |
In this post, we share some streaming content that was made by and about African Americans, and also titles that represent some broader areas of the African diaspora.

Black history month, Featured resources, Reading lists

“Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial” — Window on a turbulent time

By Mitch Farish |
Learn about the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X in the new Library resource “Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial.”

Featured resources

Behind serpentine walls: Centering enslaved laborers at UVA

By Mitch Farish |
In spring of 2020 the Library added to the University’s store of knowledge about the enslaved African Americans who performed work vital to the functioning of UVA in the 19th century.

Culture, engagement, and community

Follow changing perceptions of gender in “Gender: Identity and Social Change”

By Mitch Farish |
The Library’s new online resource “Gender: Identity and Social Change” examines the history of gender in the English-speaking world, beginning with coercive enforcement of gender roles in the nineteenth century and moving through twentieth century activism toward a more inclusive reality.

Culture, engagement, and community, Featured resources, Women's history month

Five Reasons to visit the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library

By Mitch Farish |
The Fine Arts Library, with its sunny spaces lit by floor-to-ceiling windows, is where artists, architects, dancers, actors, art historians, and students come to study and meet.

Featured resources

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 Library’s 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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