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The Robert Vickery Collection: Marks Upon the Land

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Mitch Farish

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! Robert Lee Vickery, Jr. was an author, a long-time professor in the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic engagement, Annual Report 2020, Architecture, Digital Production Group, Fine Arts Library

Rotunda as Planetarium

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Mitch Farish

Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! Seven years before construction of the Rotunda, Thomas Jefferson envisioned its inner dome as a moving model of the night … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic engagement, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Annual Report 2020, awareness, Digital Humanities, history

Join the 2021 community read — Martin Luther King’s “Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?”

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Mitch Farish

For UVA’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in January, the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is joining with the UVA Wise Office of Compliance and the New Dominion Bookshop to sponsor a community reading and panel discussion of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Event, News | Tagged academic engagement, African American, awareness, Civil Rights, history, library resource, Martin Luther King, Virgo

Introducing the Library Swahili Studies guide: Learn more about this cosmopolitan African language!

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Mitch Farish

What is Swahili — an African language, a people, a culture? The answer is yes, it’s all three, and you can learn more by visiting the UVA Library’s new Swahili Studies guide which brings together Library holdings and web resources … Continue reading →

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Posted in Featured Resource, News | Tagged academic engagement, African diaspora, awareness, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, global studies, history, library resource, research, Teaching & Learning

Welcome Research Librarian Amy Hunsaker! Liaison to the departments of Music and Drama

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Mitch Farish

We are delighted to announce that Amy Hunsaker has joined the Library as our new Music and Performing Arts Librarian. She will serve as subject liaison to the departments of Music, Drama, and the Dance Minor program, and provide support … Continue reading →

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Posted in News | Tagged academic engagement, awareness, library staff, Music Library, research, Subject Liaison

Keith Knight heads list of political cartoonists at Library symposium in honor of Pat Oliphant

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Mitch Farish

When the Library exhibition “Oliphant: Unpacking the Archive” went on display in September 2019 — bringing together for the first time the cartoons, sculpture, and paintings of renowned editorial satirist Patrick Oliphant in the Small Special Collections Library — a … Continue reading →

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Open Educational Resources aid in equity and inclusion

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Mitch Farish

From Judy Thomas, Director of Faculty Programs: October 19-25 is International Open Access Week, and this year carries the theme “Open with a Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” One way the Library pursues equity and inclusion … Continue reading →

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Posted in Grants and Special Projects, News | Tagged academic engagement, awareness, fair use, OER, open access, Open Educational Resource, research, Teaching & Learning, workshop

The Library Teaching & Learning team: meeting the needs of Students and Faculty

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Mitch Farish

As UVA shifted to online learning in the spring 2020 semester, the Library’s Teaching & Learning team drew on expertise with Library media resources and online research materials to craft a guide for Teaching Online. This fall, remote teaching is … Continue reading →

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Research Data Services is here for you!

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Mitch Farish

Research Data Services (RDS) is ready to help you at multiple stages of research for any data-oriented project involving either quantitative or qualitative data. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned data wrangler, the Library provides instruction in data … Continue reading →

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Posted in News | Tagged academic engagement, awareness, Big Data, collaboration, library resource, research, Research Data Services, technology, workshop

What’s Scholars’ Lab been up to this Semester?

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Mitch Farish

Over the next few years, Scholars’ Lab will operate from the 3rd floor of Clemons Library as renovations to the main library progress. And while COVID-19 mitigation efforts have caused the Library to scale back in-person operations, virtual consultation sessions … Continue reading →

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