Applications now open for Archives Leadership Institute 2025!
ALI seeks to build the capacity of mid-career archivists as leaders both in their own institutions and in the archives field.
Join us in celebrating Native American Heritage!
Check out staff recommendations highlighting work created by and about Indigenous peoples.
“Anne Spencer: I Am Here!”
Celebrating the life and legacy of Anne Spencer — Harlem Renaissance poet; civil rights activist; librarian and educator; avid reader and prolific writer. On view through June 14, 2025 in Special Collections.
Through a Harlem Renaissance Poet’s Garden, and Into Her Work and Life
A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet in UVA’s backyard.
This Halloween, Curl Up With These Haunting Reads From UVA Library
This scary season, if you find yourself on a midnight dreary without a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore to ponder, the University of Virginia Library has recommendations for you.
UVA reopens its main library after a massive 3.5-year construction project
In 2018, UVA administrators decided they would take on one of the most challenging renovations in school history: expanding, reorganizing, and overhauling Alderman Library.
Rare Book School Receives $3.1m Donation, Largest In Its History
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has received a $3.1m donation to endow a full-time curatorial chair for the School’s teaching collection and exhibitions program. It represents the largest single gift in Rare Book School’s 41-year history.
The Music Beat: These Students Are Rocking Out in the Library
A library might seem an unlikely venue for music popular with 20-somethings, but it’s found a home at the University of Virginia’s Clemons Library.
‘Where Faulkner Was Happy’: William Faulkner Abroad, at Home and at UVA
Last spring, UVA Library acquired 16 letters from Faulkner to his mother written while he traveled through Europe in the fall of 1925. The collection is widely considered to be the largest and most important group of correspondence by the author to become available on the market in decades.
School Spirits
UVA has plenty of ghost stories, passed down across generations by faculty, staff and alumni in writing and by word of mouth. Shannon Library, formerly Alderman Library, has been a hotbed for them.