This exhibition surveys one of the greatest archives of American literature: the University of Virginia's William Faulkner collections. Manuscripts of eight novels are displayed alongside first editions and key archival documents. The novelist's life is narrated through the personae he inhabited: artist, aviator, screenwriter, Nobel prizewinner, white southerner, and UVA writer-in-residence are just some of those featured. Die-hard fans, the general public, and even the Faulkner-phobic will find the unexpected in the items on display.

On March 19, 1917, James Rogers McConnell became the first UVA student to die in World War I. He is remembered most as one of the Lafayette Escadrille, a corps of American pilots fighting for the French before the U.S. joined the war. This exhibition surveys his extraordinary adventure, beginning with his decision to join the American Ambulance Corps in 1915, through flight training, combat, and injury, and finally to his death in aerial combat and subsequent memorialization at UVA and beyond.

“Miniature Books and Money” was launched as a partner project to an exhibition at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, "Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books 2." Drawing almost entirely from the McGehee Miniature Book Collection, the exhibition featured almost 100 miniature books, showcasing some of the ways that one topic–money–can be approached through this 12,000 item collection.

"experimental beds" is a set of six color etchings by Judy Watson, an Indigenous Australian artist who visited the University of Virginia in October 2011 as an artist-in-residence at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection. Inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s architectural drawings of UVA, Watson developed her ideas in collaboration with Professor Dean Dass and advanced printmaking students. The resulting prints use Jefferson’s drawings layered with images from Watson's visit to Monticello and her experience at UVA.

Using manuscripts, rare books, and artifacts, this exhibit traces the rhythms and pitches that reverberate through the collections at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. "Sound in Early America" is a collaboration between The Jefferson Trust, the McIntire Department of Music, UVA Music Library, and the Small Special Collections Library in conjunction with the Soundscapes of Jefferson's America Symposium.

"Lewis and Clark" features the maps that Thomas Jefferson had owned and studied as he planned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s journey to the Pacific and back. This exhibition reflects a re-envisioning of the Library’s 1995 exhibition and catalogue Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark.

From sheet music containing his original lyrics to some of the creative achievements of his family, items of poet Robert Frost's work and ephemera, included in this exhibition, demonstrate the depth of the University of Virginia Library's Clifton Waller Barrett collection.

This exhibition explores how enslaved African Americans, helped by their free and freed counterparts, challenged slavery’s governance over their bodies and lives. Some such efforts are widely known, such as ingenious escapes and wide-scale insurrections. Other, more subtle forms of revolt are less familiar, such as cases of free blacks emancipating other blacks, or examples of a slave deftly manipulating her owners’ actions in written correspondence.

The Niche is a moving image exhibition project in the Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia.

A different video or animation work is featured each month in continuous loop on a sixty-inch monitor mounted in a highly-trafficked part of the library. There is one personal surround sound chair for viewing as well as several pairs of wireless headphones. The project has been ongoing since 2009.