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

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 lists

Access the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine through UVA Library

By Molly Minturn |
UVA community members now have free access to two of the most esteemed magazines in the United States, both known for their long-form journalism, literary fiction, criticism, and cartoons.

Featured resources

Staff spotlight: Jacquelyn Kim shares the ‘magic’ of Special Collections Library

By Molly Minturn |
The Library’s Exhibitions Coordinator walks us through some of her favorite exhibitions and explains the joy of archiving and collecting.

Culture, engagement, and community, Exhibits, Staff accomplishments

‘Zines Now!’: New program builds community through independent art form

By UVA Library |
There’s been an uptick in students and faculty creating the self-published, do-it-yourself magazines thanks in part to a new Library initiative that promotes zine-making workshops, exhibitions and displays across Grounds, and a public guest lecture in partnership with the Department of Art.

Culture, engagement, and community, Grants and special projects, Staff accomplishments

Books to celebrate Native American Heritage Month

By UVA Library |
Our recommendations feature everything from a Native American “Interview with the Vampire” to early 20th-century photographs of more than 70 Indigenous groups.

National Indigenous / Native American heritage month, Reading lists

UVA Library news from around the world

  • UVA Today

    The University of Virginia was only home to the poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe for 10 months. A new exhibition at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library explores the pioneer of the detective novel’s time on Grounds and the lasting influence it had on him.

  • The College Fix

    At the University of Virginia, faculty objections led university leadership to reject a proposed expansion of its Inclusive Access textbook program, according to The Cavalier Daily. 

    Judith Thomas, director of faculty programs at the University of Virginia Library, told The College Fix via email that the Faculty Senate began reviewing the program, called “One Access,” after learning that the UVA bookstore was planning to implement it.

  • UVA Today

    The due date stamped on the card inside the book read “May 19, 1954.” It bore the marks of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, now known as Shannon Library.

  • Cville Right Now

    One exhibition explores Edgar Allan Poe's time as a UVA student, and the other details the Englishmen who played a part in both the colonization of Virginia and the draining of the English Fens.

  • UVA Today

    Stacey LeClair is the first graduate student to lead the curation of a major exhibition at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

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