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Books and films for Hispanic Heritage Month

By UVA Library |
To celebrate this month, we’re recommending a few books and films that highlight different aspects of the Hispanic/Latino experience. Authors and artists include Isabel Allende, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Julio Torres.

Culture, engagement, and community, Hispanic heritage month, Reading list

Film uses UVA archive to illuminate the life of cartoonist Patrick Oliphant

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
“A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant” features archival footage and hundreds of Oliphant works from the archive, which is housed in UVA's Special Collections. You can see the film at Violet Crown through September 18.

Featured resources, In the news, News and announcements

UVA Library 101

By UVA Library |
Check out this overview of the UVA Library system and its offerings to help you make the most of your Fall 2025 semester.

Featured resources

AI is not going away; here’s how to use it sustainably

By Molly Minturn |
Leo Lo, UVA’s incoming Dean of Libraries, shows how to calculate your own AI water footprint in a new column.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Staff accomplishments, Sustainable scholarship

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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