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Collections, spaces, services, collaboration, and discovery.
The Library is for everyone, and all are welcome.
https://library.virginia.edu/

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 3:15 PM

Join us on this evening at 4 pm in the auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library for the 2026 Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Lecture in American History!

Open to all, reception to follow.
Read more & register: https://bit.ly/4yegcko

#History #AmericanHistory

A person with glasses is seated at a desk with books in the background. A bookplate featuring an image of a ship is labeled "Tracy W. McGregor." Text on the image announces the "Finding Hidden Childhoods" lecture in 2026 for the Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Lecture in American History, given by Dr. Holly N.S. White on Thursday, October 15.

@ewg118.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 12:13 PMReposted by @uvalibrary.bsky.social

Working on this here at @uvalibrary.bsky.social also. #linkedart

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 7:21 PM

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 4 pm in the auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library for the 2026 Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Lecture in American History.
Open to all, reception to follow.
Read more & register: https://bit.ly/4yegcko

#History #AmericanHistory

@scholarslab.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:36 PMReposted by @uvalibrary.bsky.social

Next week's free public events: "away from keyboard" jewelry repair cafés, easy demographics GIS workshop, cyanotype printing, VR design=>3D prints, learn a way to explore a large corpus of humanities or socsci text (word embeddings!):

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:15 PM

Open to all and happening tomorrow!

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:09 PM

On Thurs. Oct 8 (from 4-7) join fixers from the Cville TimeBank Repair Café for an introductory repair café in @scholarslab.bsky.social, part of our Away From Keyboard initiative.

What's a repair café? What's Away From Keyboard?
Find out at https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17221635

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:39 PM

We're looking for participants for future studies to improve the user experience at the UVA Library!

To learn more, visit the UX sign up form: https://library.virginia.edu/user-experience/sign-up

Orange announcement from UVA Library encouraging students to participate in Library UX studies to improve websites, tools, and digital resources.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:11 PM

ICYMI—Mon, Oct. 5 virtual book launch for "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh of @scholarslab.bsky.social

Details: https://bit.ly/47uXauZ

@openbookpublish.bsky.social
@walshbr.bsky.social

#DH #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess

Flyer for a virtual book launch. The featured book is "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh. The cover shows rows of lecture hall seats. The event is on Monday, Oct. 5 at 1 pm.

@walshbr.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:14 AMReposted by @uvalibrary.bsky.social

Embedded Pedagogies book launch Monday!

If you can’t make it, feel free to drop a question or thought on the book, teaching, or digital pedagogy generally in the thread here for me and @winnieepm.bsky.social. Will grab some for the discussion and share back our responses.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:50 PM

"Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching & the Infrastructure of Change," by Brandon Walsh, @scholarslab.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, has dropped! Join us Mon, Oct. 5 at 1 pm to celebrate the launch!

This is a virtual event, read more & register at the link.
https://bit.ly/47uXauZ

A book titled "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh is resting on a woven chair. A pink bookmark is visible within the book.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:27 PM

Did you know the Library has a press printing 8 online journals? Aperio is an open access press, so the journals are freely and immediately available online or as a PDF download, with no price or permission barriers for readers.

Read more about Aperio:
https://bit.ly/4hwvjiB

#OpenAccess #OA

@rarebookschool.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:27 PMReposted by @uvalibrary.bsky.social

You are cordially invited to join the Rare Book School staff for our fall Open House on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗽.𝗺. in the RBS Suite (UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 230).

All are welcome!

rarebookschool.org/events/2026/10/open-house

@uvalibrary.bsky.social

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic contains a photo of a black chalkboard in the upper right quadrant, on which are drawn arrows with the words “RARE BOOK SCHOOL Open House. Demos! Scholarship & course info! Snacks!” To the left of this image, red and black text against white and tan reads “You’re invited! Join the Rare Book School staff for our Winter Open House 1–4 p.m. Thursday, 8 October. UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 230. Free & open to the public.” The lower part of the graphic contains three thumbnail images: a photo of a woman and a man in aprons operating a letterpress, the detail of a book binding with a central medallion on which a woman in a blue Regency-era dress is visited by cherubs, and a close-up photo of a person with black and pink hair leaning over a table as they pick up a piece of gold foil on a metal tool. Below these, black text reads, “Print a letterpress keepsake. View items from RBS’s world-class teaching collection. Try your hand at gold foil stamping.” At the bottom of the graphic, white text on a horizontal black bar reads “rarebookschool.org.”

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 8:15 PM

Come work with us! We're hiring for a number of positions.

Full details in the job listings:
https://at.virginia.edu/LibraryJobs

Poster displaying "UVA Library Jobs" and listing current job openings: Intermediate Administrative Assistant, Ivy Library Stacks Coordinator, Stacks Supervisor, Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist, Metadata Systems Librarian for Non-Latin Script Resources.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:14 PM

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 1, as Somé Louis, the 2026 Art in Library Spaces Community Artist-in-Residence, gives a talk on her exhibition in Shannon Library.

All are invited!
https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17617276

This is an event flyer for the "Community Artist-in-Residence Talk" at UVA Library. It features a hand holding two paintbrushes, small art pieces on a wall, and text detailing that the talk by Somé Louis will take place on Thursday, October 1, at 5:30 PM in Shannon Library Seminar Room 330. Light refreshments will be served.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 6:21 PM

Have you noticed the exhibition in Shannon Library's Z Society Reading Room? “Engagements in the College: 10 Years of Big Questions” celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Engagements Program in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Check it out, and in the meantime, read more: https://bit.ly/4e6XP9F

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 5:40 PM

If you're in Newcomb Hall and you see these guys at the Library table stop by, say hi, and sign up for Library UX research — It's painless, and it helps us tailor our services to users' needs!

Two people stand behind a table with a laptop and a sign that reads, "Help make the Library better." They are in a hallway with a railing in the background.

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:08 PM

Happening this week!

Join us Wed, Sept 23 for Sound & Silence!

How can we take care of ourselves & others through awareness?
Composer & teacher Tom Bickley will lead a series of workshops on sonic meditation & deep listening, based on the work of composer Pauline Oliveros.
https://bit.ly/4jbgWCL

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 2:26 PM

Great article from Virginia Magazine about UVA alumni puzzle creators. Includes three fun UVA-themed games, complete with a few Library and Library-adjacent answers!
https://uvamagazine.org/articles/its_all_fun_and_games

@infodocket.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 2:57 PMReposted by @uvalibrary.bsky.social

How to Know If You Can #Trust an AI's Answer to Your Question (by Leo Lo, University Librarian And Dean of #Libraries at the University of Virginia; via @theconversation.com)

theconversation.com/how-to-know-...

#AI #GenAI #librarians #AILiteracy @uvalibrary.bsky.social

@uvalibrary.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:20 PM

Join us Wed, Sept. 23 for a day of deep listening & meditation!

Poster for an event titled "Sound & Silence: A Day of Deep Listening and Meditation." Scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 23. Includes activities like workshops, a listening walk, sound meditation, documentary viewing, and refreshments. Logos for the Arts Council of the University of Virginia, the Center for Deep Listening, and University of Virginia Library are displayed. A graphic of a typewriter labeled "afk" (Away From Keyboard) is featured.

This is an event poster featuring a person holding a wooden wind instrument. The poster is titled "Sound & Silence" and includes the name Tom Bickley, identified as a composer, performer, and workshop leader. Logos for the Arts Council at the University of Virginia, the Center for Deep Listening, and the University of Virginia Library are displayed at the bottom. The background is a blue to green gradient.

This is a poster for a viewing of "Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros," directed by Daniel Weintraub. It features an image of a person seated with several film festival laurels surrounding them, including DOC NYC and DOCFEST. The top reads "Sound & Silence" and the bottom includes logos for the Arts Council, The Center for Deep Listening, and the University of Virginia Library.

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