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A Centennial Retrospective of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
An exhibition to showcase our rich and assorted collections, highlighting the staff who make those materials discoverable and accessible. On view in the Small Special Collections Library through June 13, 2026.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.