There’s a lot going on these days! We know you don’t want to miss it. Stay on top of Library news in two easy steps: Visit the Library News home page and enter your email address in the right-hand sidebar. … Continue reading
Beginning March 2, UVA Parking and Transportation is running a pilot program to offer a shuttle from Grounds to Old Ivy Road and back again. The program will run from March through the end of June, and may be extended … Continue reading
Preparation for the renovation of Alderman Library is underway, and a few changes have taken effect: The rear book drop has been moved to the Central Grounds Parking Garage (under the bookstore). You can also return books to any Library location … Continue reading
Four notable programs have deadlines coming up in February and March — don’t miss out! Course Enrichment Grants Course Enrichment Grants provide support to faculty who would like to enhance students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data, … Continue reading
3 Cavaliers interviewed Andrew M. Stauffer, Caroline Janney, and Kristin H. Jensen, of the Book Traces Project. The project fosters: “Discovery of and research upon previously-unnoticed marginalia in 19th-century books on academic library shelves in Virginia; emphasis on reading and … Continue reading
Guest post from Brandon Butler, UVA Library Director of Information Policy. Cross-posted from The Taper. For this final post for Open Access Week 2019, I’d like to focus on one of the oldest and (IMO) coolest tricks in the open access … Continue reading
The University of Virginia, along with six other Virginia research libraries and many others outside the state, has endorsed MIT’s “Framework for Publisher Contracts”, released earlier this week. The framework sets forth guiding principles for negotiating contracts supporting open-access practices. … Continue reading
This week’s guest post comes from Dave Ghamandi, Open Publishing Librarian, and gives an update on the work he’s doing at Aperio, the open access publishing house that lives at the UVA Library. Cross-posted from The Taper. The Journal of Modern Philosophy … Continue reading
Today’s OA Week Guest Post is by Sherry Lake, our scholarly repository librarian. For the last several years, Sherry has been focused on data sharing, supporting UVA researchers in managing their data and sharing it with our data repository, LibraData. For today’s … Continue reading
Subject Liaisons are librarians who focus on specific topics. They have a robust knowledge of library resources and are happy to assist with research and answer questions, large and small! Today we’re interviewing Maggie Nunley, who is a Teaching and … Continue reading
