Design principles: Reflecting the Library’s organizational values

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2021. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! This week we’re looking at ways we’re learning to work better, together. To the unfamiliar, “design principles” may sound like guidelines to … Continue reading

Deadlines coming up for Course Enrichment Grants and Research Sprints

Information sessions and application deadlines are coming up soon for Course Enrichment Grants and Research Sprints. Both programs provide substantial support for instructors at UVA — one in the classroom and the other in your area of research, no matter … Continue reading

Shaping the educational architecture of Virginia in the 20th century

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2021. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! This week we’re looking at mapping the physical world. Originally from Hamilton in Loudoun County, Virginia, architect Charles M. Robinson (1867-1932) began … Continue reading

Preserving the experience of dining in ancient Pompeii

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2021. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! This week we’re looking at mapping the physical world. As a PhD student in Art and Architectural History, Janet Dunkelbarger has spent … Continue reading

Special Collections conservator Sue Donovan featured in UVA Today interview

UVA Special Collections conservator Sue Donovan has been in the spotlight recently as the conservator of the paper contents in the cornerstone box recovered from beneath the now-removed Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, VA. In an interview appearing in … Continue reading

2021: A full year like no other

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2021. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! In summer 2020, the University knew a lot more about the coronavirus pandemic than it did when it began in the spring. … Continue reading