5 Things to know about the Library: Experts are ready to help!

While COVID-related restrictions are in place, Library users can find research materials by requesting them through Virgo to pick up at the service desk, by accessing full-text titles from the HathiTrust Digital Library in Virgo, and by logging in with … Continue reading

The Library has Everything You Need to know about Alloys and then some

The Library has added three new databases from ASM International (the world’s largest and most established materials information society) featuring information about alloys — combinations of metallic elements designed to provide greater strength and prevent corrosion, and without which much … Continue reading

5 Things to Know about the Library — COVID Restrictions have some Compensations

You’ve heard the saying “When one door closes, another door opens”? With the Library, there is some truth in the old cliché. Lately, there has been a lot of info about how the Library is changing services this semester to … Continue reading

The Library Focuses on Neglected History of Black Activism in Colored Conventions Project

New! The Library offers access to the Colored Conventions digital humanities project (CCP), a research hub that gathers primary resources and recent scholarship shedding light on a neglected chapter of Black activism that began decades before the end of slavery. … Continue reading

Register for a Library Workshop Today: a full Calendar of Events is Available via Zoom!

Although much has changed at UVA due to COVID-19 mitigation efforts, the Library continues to offer a robust calendar of workshops, classes, and activities for faculty and students. Some classes are even more relevant now that more research is being … Continue reading

Library Renovation Conserves Water Resources with Rain Tanks under Nameless Field

As the main library’s stacks are removed to make way for the new, every effort is being made to eliminate waste from the process. Parts of the building coming down have been repurposed from the inside out. Surplus wooden shelving … Continue reading

Fall 2020: What to expect from the Library

As we begin a new semester, while grappling with an ongoing global pandemic, there’s no doubt things are different. The Library can’t do everything the same as we usually do — but we’re working hard to be here when you … Continue reading

UVA materials now available to Charlottesville community through JMRL

As libraries in Central Virginia continue to adjust their services based on ever-changing health regulations, JMRL and UVA Libraries have revised existing interlibrary loan services (ILL) in order to provide increased access to materials. This service will make the University’s … Continue reading

Project Will Create Model of National Online Hub of Slavery History

The Library is honored to be a part of the “On These Grounds” project, a collaboration funded by the Mellon Foundation to improve description and discovery around the history of enslavement at universities. The excerpt below comes from a story published … Continue reading