In the first of many steps to promote openness about our spending, we are releasing the following information, outlining the costs and usage of several large journal packages, which together represent nearly 40% of our collections budget. We expect to release more detailed information, including title-level data, on a regular basis.
David Hennigan is Finance & Grants Generalist.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, the exhibition pays tribute to the incalculable cultural influence of the great American poet through display of first printings of his immortal work, Leaves of Grass, early drafts of his poems in manuscript, personal correspondence, and photographs.
After nearly a century, everything first published in 1923 has finally ascended to the public domain and is free for all to use and share. An exhibition by the UVA Library tells the story of copyright, from Jefferson to how 1923 got free, and what took so long.
A Black History Month 2019 exhibition of select anonymous and familiar African-American images from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Individually and collectively, these faces are of those whose ordinary or extraordinary achievements for themselves and their communities shaped a nation.
The University of Virginia Library is a member of the Whitman 2019 Consortium, a collective of east coast organizations, institutions, venues, and individuals planning events in celebration of the poet’s 200th birthday.
Chief Exhibition Curator George Riser on the early publications and poems that preceded Whitman's 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass.
As the Public Spaces and Special Events Planner, Debra manages and plans library events and provides oversight over event scheduling and guidelines in library spaces.
First included among the poems in the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass, “Sparkles From the Wheel” places the author among a group of children watching a knife-grinder working a blade against his wheel. Sharply descriptive, this draft includes the corrections that would stand when it was included among the cluster of poems that first appeared in Passage to India.