¡Bienvenidxs! Bem-vindxs! September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month and the Library wants to celebrate with you! Want to know which Hispanic and Latinx titles our Library colleagues are reading? Follow the conversation between Video Collections Librarian Leigh … Continue reading
With the database “African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922” the Library offers access to the burst of African American literary creativity that followed victory over the Southern Confederacy and slavery. Many of the works produced by the … Continue reading
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990 — now recognized as National Disability Independence Day, making July Disability Pride Month. Celebrate the passage of the landmark ADA and learn about the Disability Rights … Continue reading
The UVA Library has obtained a trove of material related to the history and culture of the Mormon Church. The Library has accepted a gift of more than 10,000 books and other print materials from Latter-day Saint historian Gregory A. … Continue reading
The Library now offers access to the SNCC Digital Gateway, about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee — the only national civil rights organization of the 1960s led by young people! Members appearing on this site who were involved in SNCC … Continue reading
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. In her role as subject liaison for the … Continue reading
Research Sprints, hosted by the University of Virginia Library, offer faculty the opportunity to work with a team of expert librarians who will help with getting a new project started or overcoming obstacles in an existing project. The program offers … Continue reading
This past semester, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library played a role in a new course “History and Culture of Writing at UVA,” taught by assistant professor of English Heidi Nobles. According to a UVA Today article, the … Continue reading
Course Enrichment Grants (CEG), offered by the University of Virginia Library, provide support to faculty who would like to enhance their students’ ability to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data and create new types of media-rich class assignments. … Continue reading
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! How will you continue to celebrate the many heritages that enrich the United States? We have some book recommendations with reviews by UVA Library staff of narratives highlighting the Asian diaspora. … Continue reading
