January 2025

Herbert Friedman, a day shy of 14 years old, boarded a train in Austria bound for England. It was the eve of World War II, and he was one of thousands of children rescued from Nazi-controlled territory across Europe. Eighty-seven years after Friedman’s departure from Austria, his personal effects — including the number assigned to him on that fateful train — were gifted to UVA Library by his sons.

Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, is honoring academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support inclusive excellence and belonging.

The Library’s Scholars’ Lab is helping Professor Fotini Kondyli with archaeological data visualization for her "Inhabiting Byzantine Athens” project.

The new College Topics online archive, from Vol. I, No. 1 of January 15, 1890 to Vol. XXVII, No. 64 of June 14, 1916, represents a run of 1,270 issues and 7,663 pages.

UVA Library’s reference team had a busy 2024 with the opening of Shannon Library and media attention surrounding the library’s last active card catalog.

The piece below comes to us from UVA instructor Charlotte Matthews. Reflecting on her time in the UVA Library, Matthews helps us feel the warmth of an old library; now new again.

Take a peek into how the Library's Digital Production Group captures and documents historic objects.