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

Gamechanger: Can AI accurately transcribe primary source documents?

By Molly Minturn |
UVA librarians tested out the four major AI transcription tools on some of the trickiest primary sources in Special Collections. There was a clear winner — and loser.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Events, Library stories

From artists’ books to zines — the ABCs of the UVA Library

By Jeff Hill |
An exhibition curated by staff celebrates and showcases the depth of the UVA Library's collections. On view until June!

Exhibits, Staff accomplishments

There’s a guide for that: Refreshed LibGuides help students hone their research

By UVA Library |
LibGuides identify the most important resources for research in every subject taught at UVA, and provide tips for finding the most relevant books, articles, images, datasets, and more.

Featured resources

What our users think: 2025 Library survey results

By UVA Library |
How are we doing? The new UVA Library User Survey gave us plenty of insight.

Library stories

Our favorite books read in 2025

By Molly Minturn |
Take a look at our extensive list, which includes everything from Jane Austen to Andy Weir, and check some books out for the holidays.

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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