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A year of AI literacy, unearthed archives, and community moments

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
Stylized photos of UVA places with the text: 2026 Annual Report
To answer that question, this year’s annual report has 25 stories that run the gamut — from tech-driven digital scholarship and artificial intelligence to community zines and children’s photography.

News and announcements

‘The Land Carries Our Ancestors’: Highlighting Native voices

By UVA Library |
A collection of book covers about Indigenous topics displayed on a green background. Titles include "Never Whistle at Night," "Native Nations," "Mohawk Interruptus," "The Rediscovery of America," "We Had a Little Real Estate Problem," "Taming Water's Transforming Worlds," and others.
UVA librarians recommend poetry, visual art, history, podcasts, fiction, and local exhibitions to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

National Indigenous / Native American heritage month, Reading lists

Q&A with Sue Donovan, Conservator for Special Collections

By Jeff Hill |
A person is working at a large drafting table with a cutter in an art studio. Shelves with various supplies and artworks line the walls of the well-lit space. Another person is seated at a desk in the background.
Just ahead of "Ask a Conservator Day," UVA Library Special Collections Conservator Sue Donovan answered a few questions about her profession and the work she does with UVA's collections.

Preservation

Spooky season continues: New exhibition explores Edgar Allan Poe’s student life

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
A woman smiles alongside two busts of Edgar Allan Poe, a thumbnail of an exhibition poster, and a hand-signed note
A new exhibition explores Edgar Allan Poe’s time as a rambunctious UVA student before he became a well-known writer.

Exhibits

Memento mori: A skull fragment in Special Collections is the focus of a new article in the Journal of the American Revolution

By Molly Minturn |
Left side: Individual setting up a video camera on tripod in a building with large columns overlooking a park. Right side: Two items inside a display case. One is a box labeled 'Skull Fragment of David Steele from Battle of Guilford Courthouse MSS 106 16c.' The other is a labeled plastic bag containing a piece of skull bone.
Heritage professional Emelia Lehmann wrote about a most unusual and somewhat gruesome artifact that caught her attention when she worked in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library as a graduate student.

Art in libraries, Library stories, Preservation

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