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The daughter of a former UVA student found an Anthony Trollope book in her attic. It had been checked out of Alderman Library in 1954, and its journey back to the library helped bring back memories of her father.

Free events for the month of October include podcasting and music production workshops, crafting with felt, jewelry repair classes, and the McGregor Lecture on finding hidden childhoods in historical texts.

Somé Louis, the 2026 Art in Library Spaces Community Artist-in-Residence, will give an artist's talk on Oct. 1 in Shannon Library. Her work explores "childhood memories of unstructured summer days," especially in her old family home in the Caribbean.

A team of UVA Library experts recently collaborated with faculty from UVA’s Center for Community Partnerships to expand and refresh an important youth directory, just one example of the successful Library Sprints program.

The database CartoonStock, now accessible through UVA Library, contains more than 750,000 cataloged and searchable cartoons first published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Wired, MAD, National Lampoon, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

With Final Exercises in the past, we put together a Q&A with a few graduating Library student workers about their plans for the future, their favorite part of working at the Library, and more.

Conservator Sue Donovan was on the team who opened the 134-year-old commemorative box that had been buried beneath the Lee statue. Historian Ervin L. Jordan Jr. analyzed the contents inside for clues about the lives of Black Richmonders in the 1890s. Both had much to say about what they found.

A new photography and animation studio in Clemons is helping students build their creative portfolios, while avid readers can find new popular books and graphic novels collections in Shannon.

The new art installation features photographs by 5-10-year-olds who captured “fleeting moments of joy and everyday beauty” after their lives were changed by a devastating earthquake.

"I don’t like being a passive passenger on this ride," Dean Leo Lo recently said about artificial intelligence. The Library's new Archival AI Protocol serves as a practical shared standard that libraries, archives, and museums can use in real decisions and contracts involving AI.