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If you're staying here for the Thanksgiving Break, check out this page from Student Services — things to do, places to visit, and a schedule of when things are open or closed on Grounds. (Libraries are closed Wed-Sat, reopening Sunday)
studentaffairs.virginia.edu/thanksgiving...
Thanksgiving Break Services and Hours | Student Affairs
Staying in Charlottesville during Thanksgiving Break? Here are some fun things to do!
studentaffairs.virginia.edu
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today on the podcast, I share a "Take It or Leave It" panel on the role of generative AI in online learning! The panel features Michelle Beavers (education), Sara McClellan (public policy), and Leo Lo (@uvalibrary.bsky.social), all from UVA! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Monday morning Pratt Ginkgo update ... #ginkgowatch2025
Autumn leaves on trees in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, illuminated by sunlight against a clear blue sky. A vibrant yellow ginkgo tree in full autumn color, standing in front of the colonnades of the historic University of Virginia.
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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A few looks at the Pratt Ginkgo today, as it approaches its golden peak.

#ginkgowatch2025 #PrattGinkgo
View from a window overlooking a scenic scene on the University of Virginia Grounds, with the Chapel and the Rotunda surrounded by trees and a walking path. Close-up of vibrant yellow ginkgo biloba leaves against a sunlit backdrop. A vibrant ginkgo tree with bright yellow leaves under a clear blue sky. Autumn tree with vibrant yellow leaves behind the Lawn at the University of Virginia on a sunny day.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Today marks the passing of UVA student-athletes Devin Chandler, D’Sean Perry and Lavel Davis Jr.

At 1:55 pm the Chapel bells will toll and all are encouraged to participate in a moment of silence in their memory as we honor their lives and legacies.

news.virginia.edu/content/memo...
Tribute image featuring University of Virginia football players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D'Sean Perry, smiling in their jerseys, with text "forever in our hearts" and their years of birth and passing, 2002-2022, 2002-2022, and 2000-2022.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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There are a couple of seats newly open for this evening's "Zines for Change" zine-making workshop in the @scholarslab.bsky.social with Jess Walters!
Read more and register!
cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15124934
Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change
Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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come work with me! @uvalibrary.bsky.social is hiring an Educational Technologies Librarian to (among other things) teach students how to make cool audio/visual projects. details: apply.interfolio.com/176554
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Join us November 12 as we wind up our series on #AI in the research cycle! This one covers AI in copyright, licensing & impact.

Speakers include Leo Lo @uvalibrary.bsky.social @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social & Liu Simpson @americanpublish.bsky.social.

FREE for members: niso.org/events/ai-re...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Using your hands and your imagination stretches the brain!”
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
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Text reading 'ZINES NOW!' in bold black letters overlaying a background featuring various faded gray symbols including '@' and '#.'" A person wearing a printer’s apron inspects wooden printing materials in a workshop environment, with various tools and another person visible in the background. Three zines titled Miscellany of Emotions; Zine of Miscellany, and Things I Learned About Surviving C-PTSD; alongside a pencil, displayed on a wooden table near a window.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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More from @josefbeery.bsky.social's zine+letterpress event @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! series last week w/some of his innovations w/movable lasercut acrylic shapes, which can be used for patterns (pic 2) or as pieces of movable type (pic 3 says "Zine Zone" printed); +his BookBlossom wood type
Photo of a group of people clustered around a table where Josef Beery is demonstrating how to print with a BookBeetle press Photo of a printing block by Josef Beery; it's many clear acrylic t-shaped bits, arranged into a repeating pattern covering an acrylic sheet, that can be inked and printed on paper. Held up to show the light coming through. Photo of a printing block by Josef Beery; it's clear acrylic small shapes, arranged into a an artistic layout of the words "zine zone" (backwards so it prints readably), that can be inked and printed on paper. Held up to show the light coming through. Closeup photo of rounded wood letterpress type (Josef Beery's BookBlossom)
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Follow the link for reading curated by and about Native Americans, highlighting resilience, identity, and heritage, curated by Library staff.
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #IndigenousVoices

library.virginia.edu/news/2025/bo...
Image of a scenic sunset over mountain ranges with text inviting viewers to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Tuesday, Nov. 4 is Election Day—We encourage everyone to get out & vote!

Check out the UVA Center for Politics site for voting resources: centerforpolitics.org/vote/

Election Day is an academic holiday at UVA & there are no classes, but libraries are open normal hours.
Graphic reading VOTE in large stacked block letters designed in an American flag motif with stars and stripes.
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Happy Halloween!! For today, a few #Halloween adjacent entries from our ABCs of the UVA Library exhibition. K is for Kits (in this case, a vampire killing kit), S is for Sea Monsters, and H is for Horror (more on that here:
smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/10/29/h... )
K is for Kits image, featuring a stylized blue chest with several golden compartments on a yellow background with a large white letter 'K' overlaying the image. The blue chest is a vampire killing kit with axe and cross visible. S is for Sea Monster showing a stylized drawing of a sea monster with a sailor in its mouth, twined around a large capital S, on a bluegreen background H is for Horror graphic, a stylized illustration of a movie zombie and a large capital H.
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Join us November 12 as we wind up our series on #AI in the research cycle! This one covers AI in copyright, licensing & impact.

Speakers include Leo Lo @uvalibrary.bsky.social @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social & Liu Simpson @americanpublish.bsky.social.

FREE for members: niso.org/events/ai-re...
NISO Webinars logo with URL: http://niso.org/events
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Aperio, UVA’s library-led open access press, is actively seeking book proposals from the UVA community to publish high-quality books that are available to a worldwide audience free of charge.

Learn more about our book program at aperio.press/proposal-boo...

#OA #OpenAccess
Logo of Aperio, a service of the University of Virginia, featuring the word 'aperio' in lowercase orange letters on a black background.
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A hawk out by Shannon and Clemons this morning, flying over Nameless Field.
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Join us 30 October for Halloween-inspired activities & a closing reception for our 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 exhibition, 4–6:30 p.m. @ RBS (Ste. 230) in UVA's Shannon Library.

Free & open to the public. Details: rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/famous-forgotten-exhibition-events
A vertically oriented rectangular graphic has a mostly black background, against which cream and white text at the top reads “Famous & Forgotten Exhibition Closing.” To the left of this are photos of an Authors game card for King Lear and of two skulls stacked on each other. The upper skull is holding a stylus in its teeth and has a piece of leather draped over its head. A white background extends at a sloping angle from these, against which red and black text reads “4:00–6:30 p.m. Thursday, 30 October 2025. Rare Book School (Suite 230) Second floor, Shannon Library, UVA. Free & open to the public.” In the bottom left corner is the RBS logo with text reading “Famous & Forgotten: The Game of Authors is sponsored by the Pine Tree Foundation of New York,” along with RBS’s URL, rarebookschool.org. The lower right of the graphic shows an open page from Hamlet with an illustration of Hamlet cowering before the ghost of his father on a castle parapet.
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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It's not too late to join us for an Open Access Week brown bag lunch at noon — short presentations followed by Q&A. Can't make it today? There's another one tomorrow...

Follow the link for more including registration info!
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...

#OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek
International Open Access Week promotional image with the headline "Who owns our knowledge?" and various themed images with open access symbols.
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Who owns our knowledge?

Join us on October 21-22 in celebrating Open Access Week, with some lively discussions about ownership and access! #OAWeek

library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...
Who owns our knowledge? International Open Access Week, October 20-26, 2025. #OAWeek
October 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ICYMI, Aperio, the Library-led open access press, is publishing its 1st undergraduate student journal!
Quill & Quire: The Undergraduate Medieval Review will showcase original research & provide undergrads w/ professional experience in academic publishing.

library.virginia.edu/news/2025/uv...
Logo of Quill & Quire, The Undergraduate Medieval Review, featuring a stylized letter Q adorned with laurels on a teal background.
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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From the Cavalier Daily — Dean Lo discusses the Library and the rapid changes AI is bringing to higher ed
New University Dean of Libraries Leo Lo discusses role of AI in education
Lo said his central priority is preparing the University’s libraries for the rapid changes AI will bring, likening the technology to the internet’s arrival decades ago.
www.cavalierdaily.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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From "Artist's Books" and "Borges" to "Yearbooks" and "Zines" — the ABCs of the UVA Library is on display now! A host of entries are in Special Collections, with outposts at other libraries.
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/le...
@rareuva.bsky.social
Two individuals are viewing a case titled "Clemons's Correspondence" and holding numerous letters and photos, in an exhibition gallery. One is pointing at a display panel while the other looks on attentively. Other display cases and individuals can be seen in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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You are cordially invited to join the Rare Book School staff for our fall Open House on Friday, 17 October from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET in the RBS Suite (UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 230)!

Free & open to the public.

@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 Fall Open House 1–4 p.m. Friday, 17 October. UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 230. Free & open to the public.” The lower part of the graphic contains three thumbnail images: a close-up of a piece of red leather stamped with black and gold designs, a photo of a woman and a man operating a letterpress, and a close-up of a printed image of a red lion holding a sword and arrows. Below these, black text reads, “Try your hand at gold foil stamping. Print a letterpress keepsake. View items from RBS’s world-class teaching collection.” At the bottom of the graphic, white text on a horizontal black bar reads “rarebookschool.org”.
October 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Brown Science & Engineering Library in Clark Hall will be closed on Sunday Oct. 5 as repairs affecting the water supply system take place.

We hope to reopen by 6 p.m. Sunday; but if repairs are not complete the Library will reopen Monday at 8 a.m.

Library hours:
library.virginia.edu/hours
Service notice: Brown Library will be closed for repairs on Sunday, Oct. 5, depicted with a loudspeaker icon.
October 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A couple of interesting sculptures popped up outside of Shannon & Harrison/Small ... if you're walking by take a look.
A papier-mâché sculpture of a stack of books, in front of UVA’s Harrison/Small building. A fabric is showcased outdoors, draped over a structure with a beige skirt at the base, set against a backdrop of trees and academic buildings with white columns.
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM