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

‘The Way We See It’: New exhibition in Shannon Library shows a complicated world through the eyes of children

By Molly Minturn |
The new art installation features photographs by 5-10-year-olds who captured “fleeting moments of joy and everyday beauty” after their lives were changed by a devastating earthquake.

Art in libraries, Events, Exhibits

Protecting what remains: Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol

By Molly Minturn |
"I don’t like being a passive passenger on this ride," Dean Leo Lo recently said about artificial intelligence. The Library's new Archival AI Protocol serves as a practical shared standard that libraries, archives, and museums can use in real decisions and contracts involving AI.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Featured resources, News and announcements, Sustainable scholarship

Sharing the love by sharing the data

By UVA Library |
Whether you are someone who reviews datasets or someone who creates them, it’s important to learn how to “close the distance” between creator and user, making sure your data is reusable. And it’s easier than you might think!

Love Data Week, Sustainable scholarship

Where’s the data??

By UVA Library |
For many years the U.S. government made strides toward open data — but the situation is notably different now. What changed? And what does the law say about it?

Love Data Week, Sustainable scholarship

Black History Month 2026: Celebrating 100 Years

By UVA Library |
Several UVA librarians recommend books, databases, and videos that investigate the significance of the Black experience throughout American history and beyond.

Black history month, Reading list

UVA Library news from around the world

  • 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.

  • Fine Books & Collections

    David R. Whitesell, who retired as curator in UVAs Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in 2022, explains how pioneers of photographic processes in the 19th century changed how books were illustrated.

  • UVA Today

    Pat Oliphant, whose syndicated political cartoons anchored editorial pages in newspapers across the country from 1965 to 2015 – many of which are part of his work archived in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library –died Monday at the age of 90.

  • UVA Today

    The second floor of Shannon Library at the University of Virginia is home to a place where books go to get well. Or, at a minimum, usable.

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