We're gearing up for Revolutionary Printing & hope to see you there! It goes from 11-3 at @rareuva.bsky.social. Drop in any time! NOTE that ALL other UVA Library spaces & services are closed on both Fri July 3 & Sat July 4. Whatever your plans, stay cool! Details: https://bit.ly/3SICdbV

We're hiring a Reference Librarian/ Archivist to join our Public Services Team! Please visit at.virginia.edu/reference for more information about the position. Application review begins May 18.

Today—on her birthday—we honor the memory of our dear colleague and beautiful friend, Grace Hale, Reference and Instruction Librarian in the Small Special Collections Library since August 2021. Grace passed away from cancer, surrounded by her loving family, on February 3, 2026.

In celebration of #ValentinesDay, UVA Today took a look at love letters, lithographs, poetry and first edition books, among other items, that document love that was sometimes hidden. news.virginia.edu/content/deep...

**Tuesday Jan 27 Library hours** ONLY Clemons Library will be open — from 10 am to 10 pm. Stay safe, and come in and get warm. Library hours can always be checked at library.virginia.edu/hours @rareuva.bsky.social

What’s on your #Thanksgiving menu? This 1887 menu from Woman’s Home Companion features some dishes that have remained mainstays and others that might be a surprise—like turtle soup!

💛Swipe to see how much the Pratt Ginkgo has grown over the past century! Planted on the northwest side of the Rotunda in 1859, the tree is named for William A. Pratt, the University’s first superintendent of buildings and grounds. #ginkgowatch2025 @uvalibrary.bsky.social

The exhibition entries for Kits and Sea Monsters and much more are in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA, while Horror is on the 4th floor of Clemons, near the DVDs. Read more about H is for Horror on UVA Today: news.virginia.edu/content/look...

Looking for a good scare? Here’s what to watch this Halloween

Horror movie enthusiasts on UVA Library’s staff offer their recommendations.

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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... )

Brittany Murray (she/her) recently joined @uvalibrary.bsky.social as the Charlottesville and Virginia Collections Conservator. She is responsible for the conservation and preservation of collection items from local communities in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

Had an absolutely glorious time today looking at medieval books of hours and breviaries at Albert and Shirley Small special collections! @rareuva.bsky.social I always am fascinated by looking at signs of use - seeing how worn some pages were and where other codices fell open to was amazing!

New on our blog: Senior Imaging Specialist Stacey Evans reflects on the process of re-digitizing African American portraits in the Holsinger Studio Collection for our 2022-23 Visions of Progress: exhibition. Read her post here: smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/10/21/h....

Repost from @/abigailenjoysliterature on TikTok: “to this day, still one of the best days ever. this was one of the highlights of grad school. i yearn for access to special collections again oh my god. what’s the coolest book related artifact you’ve seen?? #reading #BookTok #literature #reader #fyp”

"P is for Point Clouds" exhibit is up in our Common Room! These aren't 3D models—they're clouds of tons of tiny points of measured, preservation-level accurate 3D data. 5 local historical locations including the Pine Grove Rosenwald School=explorable in VR, or as flythrus on our display or online +

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New exhibition—the ABCs of the UVA Library! From Artists' Books to Zines, with 24 stops in between. (Actually more, as the article notes) This evening's event is a sold out full house, but the exhibition will be up for the academic year at @rareuva.bsky.social (with outposts in other libraries)

In the American Civil Wars class visiting Special Collections today, students were greatly intrigued by a new acquisition: the James Thomas Watt Hairston Civil War prison ledger. archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories...

New exhibition—the ABCs of the UVA Library! From Artists' Books to Zines, with 24 stops in between. (Actually more, as the article notes) This evening's event is a sold out full house, but the exhibition will be up for the academic year at @rareuva.bsky.social (with outposts in other libraries)

Exploring the ABCs of the UVA Library

A yearlong exhibition showcases nearly 200 items, spotlighting rare books, artifacts and surprising objects from the collection.

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The A-Z exhibits include 2 from the lab: "P is for Point-Cloud Data" by Will Rourk & @arinbb.bsky.social (on 3D captures of historic artifacts+architecture); and "Z is for Zines" by @literaturegeek.bsky.social

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Local folks, Wed 9/17 5:30pm visit UVA Special Collections for the catered opening of a new exhibit of microexhibits. 48 of our library staff curated quick+deep dives into an "A-Z" of topics they care about in our collections, from Artist Books to Zines, Sea Monsters to Pandemic Books. Pls register:

"A Discovery and an Eclipse: Langston Hughes’ Rise to Fame": In a new post on our blog, Curator George Riser highlights a set of poems addressed from Langston Hughes to Vachel Lindsay—whose endorsement contributed to Hughes' rise in acclaim as a poet. smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/07/21/a...

Join printer Josef Beery as he recreates the first printing of the Declaration of Independence in the South Gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library on Thursday, July 3, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. No tickets required!

On June 9, 2012, UVA’s first female president, Teresa Sullivan, was controversially fired by the Board of Visitors. The President’s Office received hundreds of letters of support—none was more unusual than this red shoe, sent by the Reverends Mary and Milton Cole from Des Moines, Iowa.

One of just eight known copies in the world, this lovingly adorned copy of White Fire, a story about gay male love, was gifted by its author Michael Laurie (likely a pseudonym) to his lover, Julian—whose likeness is captured in an intimate pencil and white gouache portrait drawn by Michael.

Happy Juneteenth! Here in Virginia we traditionally celebrate Emancipation Day in April, on the 3, the day Richmond fell, & on the 9, the day Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Check out my short piece here. @rareuva.bsky.social Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going

Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going

Visit the post for more.

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Born in Chicago's South Side, Ernie McClintock (1937-2003) was an American director, actor, teacher, and major force behind the scenes of the #BlackArtsMovement. In Chicago in 1962, Ernie met his long-time partner Ronald “Ronn” Tyrone Walker (1936-1999)—an award-winning scenic artist. #QueerHistory

Reference Librarian Anne Causey recommends Patchwork Voices by Emilee Taxman as part of @uvalibrary.bsky.social's compilation of book and film recommendations exploring the history, present, and future of trans people for #PrideMonth. Explore the full list at library.virginia.edu/news/2025/ce....

If you’ve watched Tyler Perry’s award-winning 2024 film Six Triple Eight, you might be familiar with the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the U.S. Women’s Army Corps—the only Black female battalion overseas during the Second World War.

🎓In honor of Commencement this week, we’re highlighting our collection's oldest diploma—awarded to John A. Gretter as a graduate in the School of Mathematics—from UVA's first graduating class in 1828. 🎊Congratulations to all of the soon-to-be new alumni of UVA!

While planning our current exhibit: “Seeing Stars: The Universities Earliest Observatories,” we never imagined that the University’s first telescope—an 1828 W. & T. Gilbert four foot refractor—might still be on Grounds nearly two centuries later!

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture will be given on Mon, May 12 at @rareuva.bsky.social & (free) tickets are still available. Historian @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social will speak on Black Poets & the Patriots who Mocked them in Jefferson's America. Full info: www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-jef...

How did you update your parents before cell phones or selfies? When #WilliamFaulkner was studying abroad in Paris in the fall of 1925, he included a few drawings of himself to update his mother on the growth of his beard. “Don’t faint,” he writes, saying it made him look quite “distinguished.”