News, announcements, updates, and happenings in the UVA Library
By akl3b | Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:56. In partnership with UVA Arts, the Library’s Art in Library Spaces committee welcomes proposals for artistic works to be displayed in Shannon Library’s second floor gallery. Faculty and staff at UVA are welcomed to apply, and the selected recipient (s) will receive $5,000, paid to their department to ...
Research Sprints are underway: Faculty and Library experts work ...
May 23, 2022 · From Judith Thomas, Director of Faculty Programs:. Research Sprints offer faculty the opportunity to work with a team of expert librarians who help with getting a new project started or overcoming obstacles in an existing project.
November | 2021 | UVA Library News and Announcements
Nov 5, 2021 · Making Noise in the Library: An interview with Composer Greg C. Brown. From Amy Hunsaker, Librarian for Music & the Performing Arts: The Making Noise in the Library series, generously supported by a grant from the UVA Arts Council, is a program that brings UVA artists into the Music Library for free performances.
December | 2021 | UVA Library News and Announcements
Dec 1, 2021 · Announcing Friends of the Library. Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2021. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more.
July | 2021 | UVA Library News and Announcements
Monthly Archives: July 2021 What to expect at the Library in fall 2021. Update: Beginning Monday, August 9, UVA is requiring masks in all indoor spaces, including libraries, regardless of a person’s vaccination status.
(Re-)Connecting Equity and Open Knowledge at UVA
Oct 29, 2021 · Today we continue with International Open Access Week, and this year’s theme is, “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”Open Access Week is a time for the international community to work together to take significant steps toward making openness the default for research.
New UVA Library collection, exhibition examine ‘Summer of Hate’ …
Aug 8, 2022 · Many of the digital items UVA Library staff collected in the days after rally are now available to the public in the “University of Virginia Collection on Events in Charlottesville, VA, August 11-13, 2017,” a 20 gigabyte digital archive, containing everything from a video of white supremacists marching up the Rotunda steps the night of …
May | 2021 | UVA Library News and Announcements
Monthly Archives: May 2021 Librarian is awarded grant to start collection of pandemic-related children’s books. Education and Social Science Research Librarian Ashley Hosbach has been awarded a grant of $8,739 from the Jefferson Trust to build a collection of 119 children’s books related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preserving a piece of African American history
Nov 10, 2021 · UVA Today is featuring a story on the University’s participation in a project to preserve and restore a schoolhouse in Pine Grove, Cumberland County, VA. The historic school, built in 1917 as…
April | 2021 | UVA Library News and Announcements
Apr 6, 2021 · UVA Parents Fund grant will support Clemons Library space redesign. With support from the UVA Parents Fund, staff from the UVA Library’s Teaching and Learning team will create a new outreach space in Clemons that will focus on student art and multimedia work, boost the library’s popular reading collection, and …