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Celebrating a Milestone of the Main Library Renovation

By Jeff Hill |
University and Library personnel and construction workers and contractors gathered yesterday for a "topping-out ceremony" for the library renovation. The topping-out is when the last beam is placed atop a structure, and is a traditional milestone in a major construction project.

In the news, Renovation

Recommended reading for Jewish American Heritage Month 2022

By UVA Library |
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! To help celebrate, UVA librarian for English, Sherri Brown, reached out to a few people in the UVA community for recommended reading with a focus on fiction and memoirs written by Jewish American women. We hope you find a book or two to pique your interest!

Featured resources, Jewish American Heritage Month, Reading lists

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage with some great reads!

By Mitch Farish |
May is Asian American and Pacific American Heritage Month! Celebrate by reading literature, poetry, and more by Asian American and Pacific Island artists.

Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month, Featured resources, Reading lists

Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month with great reads from the Library!

By Mitch Farish |
Want to explore Arab American literature but don’t know where to start? UVA Library holds a substantial collection of Arab American fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Here are some books to get you started.

Arab American Heritage Month, Featured resources, Reading lists

Discover a forgotten chapter of women’s history in “Black Women’s Suffrage”

By Mitch Farish |
The movement to extend voting rights to African American men after the Civil War was immediately accompanied by a push to expand the goal to include women. However, it would take both Black and white women over half a century more of struggle to finally secure the right to vote with passage of the 19th Amendment. The Black Women’s Suffrage resource explores the twin burden faced by Black women in the suffragist movement who not only fought against gender bias that denied women the right to vote, but against racism which denied people of color even the most basic of human rights.

Culture, engagement, and community, Featured resources

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