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

Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2021!

By Mitch Farish |
November is Native American Heritage Month! Follow the conversation below between Librarian for African American and African Studies Katrina Spencer and other Library staff discussing recommended titles from the Library collection about the histories, cultures, lands, and politics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Featured resources, National Indigenous / Native American heritage month, Reading lists

Library offers free access to New York Times digital resource!

By Mitch Farish |
The Library is now offering full online access to the New York Times to everyone in the University community!

Featured resources, News and announcements

Experience unique vibe of the Music Library in Old Cabell Hall!

By Mitch Farish |
The Music Library has been described as a fishbowl, with its Byzantine-inspired blue carpet squares and arched ceilings. It is very quiet there, except for music that occasionally wafts through from a rehearsal or music lecture. Quirky, hidden study spaces are tucked behind walls of books. It is perhaps the most unique library on Grounds and is worth a visit — if you can find it.

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Need Journal access? We’ve got you covered.

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
There have been a lot of news stories in the past few years about the “big deals,” academic publishing, and its relationship to journal access in higher education, including here at UVA. And it’s true: what’s happening now is, well, a big deal; one that will affect the way we publish and read for decades to come.

Featured resources, Sustainable scholarship

A half century of history and entertainment news available in the Rolling Stone Archive

By Mitch Farish |
The Library has the entire backfile of Rolling Stone magazine in the Rolling Stone Archive — now available in the Library’s A-Z Databases list from its beginning to the present: full-color scans, full-page content, cover-to-cover, including articles, editorials, and advertisements, with article-level indexing and searchable text.

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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