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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.

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.

After almost four years of renovations, the University of Virginia’s main library reopened its doors to the public at the beginning of the year. But the massive windows and study courts aren’t the only changes—the building also has a new name.