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Recommended reading for Hispanic Heritage Month

By UVA Library |

Guest post by Miguel Angel Valladares-Llata, Librarian for Romance Languages and Latin American Studies

Here I present my selection of books to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep. 15 – Oct 15, 2024). Six books are included in this list; one inspirational for UVA’s own Latino community; another two describe a current painful reality for the Latino community in the U.S., and three of the books celebrate the literary and vital creativity of Latino writers and poets. Enjoy!

Hispanic heritage month, Reading list

From “Bridgerton” to bookbinding: Here are 5 upcoming events at UVA Library

By mwm7b |

The University of Virginia Library has six locations; an array of cozy study spaces; millions of books, journals, videos, newspapers available for checkout or browsing; and new resources arriving each day. And did you know we also offer events ranging from exhibitions to concerts for UVA and the Charlottesville community throughout the year?

Below, check out five upcoming events for those who love crafting, bookbinding, spatial mapping, and more. All Library events are free.

Events

Full house: Books moved back into Shannon Library

By mwm7b |
The image shows a large stack of books piled up on the left side, with some books appearing to float or fly away from the stack. On the right side, there is text in bold white and orange that reads: "1.2 Million Books Moved." The background is a dark navy blue color.
Design by Johnny Utterback, UVA Today

UVA Library is celebrating a major milestone: the books in Shannon Library’s stacks are now fully moved in and available to patrons. Each floor in Shannon (aside from the basement and second floor) has two stacks locations — Stacks West and Stacks East.

In the news, Library stories, News and announcements, Renovation

Celebrate Disability Pride Month with these books and resources

By UVA Library |

Guest post by Christine Slaughter, Social Science Research Librarian 

In observation of Disability Pride Month this July, the Library would like to highlight a number of resources exploring disability justice and activism that we hold in our collection, including anthologies and essays, memoirs, a primary source database, and an introduction to core concepts in disability studies. The quoted text is from each book’s publisher.

Disability pride and awareness, Reading list

Free for all: How the Library assists faculty with open educational resources

By mwm7b |

Charlotte Hoopes had no idea what open educational resources (OER) were until she had to build an introductory business course from scratch in 2021, her first year as an assistant professor in the McIntire School of Commerce*. The cost of business case studies and simulations consumed her class budget, leading her to discover free, “open” textbooks. As she delved into the world of OER, she discovered resources and grants through UVA Library that allowed her to create her own open textbook specifically tailored for her class. That textbook is now available worldwide, and has been used by more than 1,000 students.

Featured resources, Sustainable scholarship

Celebrate Pride through these works of art and research

By UVA Library |

June is here and Pride Month is upon us again! This is the month when we honor queer history and the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 in Manhattan, New York, that set an already-burgeoning gay rights activist movement into high gear. Here in Charlottesville, we get to celebrate Pride twice! Once in June and again in September, when our town and the University celebrate Pride with the full involvement of UVA students.

This month Reference Librarian Mandy Rizki is highlighting a handful of the many library resources that focus on LGBTQIA+ lives, experiences, and fields of scholarship.

Pride month, Reading list

Browsing the Iselin Collection

By jph9e |

In 2023, the Library was the grateful recipient of a major gift — a collection of humor and illustration, mainly of social and political satire — from retired attorney Josephine Lea Iselin, a noted collector of illustrated books, prints, manuscripts, and ephemera. The collection, housed in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, is relevant to fields ranging from art and literature to political science, history, and media studies, and will find broad use in research, instruction, exhibition, and outreach.

Here, we take a close look at just a few of the more than 900 items in the Iselin Collection of Humor.

Announcing the 2024 Research Sprints program

By UVA Library |

UVA Library is pleased to announce its 2024 Research Sprints program. Research Sprints provide faculty with the opportunity to partner with a team of expert librarians on a specific project, offering deep interaction and an extended time commitment. During the sprints, faculty work intensively with librarians for one to three full working days to overcome obstacles, explore new research avenues, or test new methods.

Grants and special projects, News and announcements

Congratulations to recipients of Course Enrichment Grants 2024-25!

By UVA Library |

The Library is pleased to announce that the following projects have been selected for support in the Course Enrichment Grants program. These grants provide support to faculty interested in enhancing students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data in scholarly contexts, as well as create media-rich class assignments. Faculty recipients work with teams of library staff to revise their syllabi and plan for in-class instructional support.

Grants and special projects

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