News, announcements, updates, and happenings in the UVA Library

Announcing the Archives Leadership Institute’s 2025 cohort

By UVA Library |
In a competitive application process, 25 archivists have been selected as cohort members in the 2025 Archives Leadership Institute (ALI) to be held at the University of Virginia Library, June 8-14, 2025.

Culture, engagement, and community, Grants and special projects, News and announcements, Preservation

Celebrating Earth Day all year long

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
From LEED certification to green tours, the Library is prioritizing sustainability for the future.

Renovation, Sustainable scholarship

National Poetry Series winner is the Library’s artist-in-residence

By Molly Minturn |
MaKshya Tolbert, the inaugural Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence, will deliver a talk on place-based poetics and creative process on April 18.

Art in libraries, Events, Exhibits, Interns and fellows, Library stories

Staff spotlight: The Library’s research software specialist is also the award-winning coach of UVA women’s rugby

By Molly Minturn |
Nancy Kechner, who has served as head coach of UVA’s women’s rugby team since 1997, says she enjoys “putting out fires,” both on the field and in the Library.

Library stories, Staff accomplishments

Seven books to celebrate Arab American Heritage Month

By UVA Library |
UVA Library holds a substantial collection of Arab American fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Here are just a few recommendations.

Arab American Heritage Month, Reading list

UVA Library news from around the world

  • UVA Magazine

    How four UVA alumni helped shape the “golden age” of puzzles. Plus: Play our three UVA-themed games (with Library-related clues!).

  • UVA Today

    “The idea is to train an artificial intelligence model to help with this speech recognition into text, and that requires a significant data set,” said Lisa Blackmore, the faculty director of UVA Librarys Digital Humanities Center. “This project is a great example of how AI can be used in experimental and creative ways as part of socially engaged research.”

  • Virginia Living

    “Reading feeds every creative community,” says Dr. Leo Lo, UVA’s university librarian and dean of libraries. “It expands what people can imagine, improves how they communicate, and trains the patience needed to make original work. Libraries keep that creative fuel available to everyone.”

  • Inc.

    “The same quality that makes a book valuable as training data makes it likelier to be scarce in the world,” Leo Lo, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia, told Inc.

  • Fine Books & Collections

    David R. Whitesell, who retired as curator in UVAs Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in 2022, explains how pioneers of photographic processes in the 19th century changed how books were illustrated.

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