Charlottesville, VA 22903
About
Ivy Library is a high-density shelving and retrieval facility located one mile west of Central Grounds. It is not open to the public. Read more about Ivy operations in the collections statement.
Ivy Library currently holds over three million books and other materials from the UVA Library, all of which are available for checkout through Virgo. There is a drive-up book drop outside of Ivy Library, which anyone is welcome to use. See a map of Library locations and book drops.
An expansion of the facility took place in 2018, which doubled the amount of materials the facility can contain. Ivy Library is outfitted with solar panels to reduce its energy footprint. The video below from UVA Magazine demonstrates how requests are filled and how this facility differs from our other libraries.