The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library administers over 13 million manuscripts, 3.6 million items in the University archives, and 325,000 rare books, as well as approximately 5,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more than 250,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture films, and ephemera. The major emphases of the collections are American history and literature, with additional substantive collections in Virginiana, British literature, African-American history, book arts, the history of sporting and World War I, among others.

The Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BIFFI) promotes interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist research, scholarship, and cultural production at the intersection of Black Studies and Indigenous Studies. Through our work, we facilitate exchange between scholars working in these fields by hosting Fellows-in-Residence, convening manuscript workshops, and creating gathering spaces for scholars, students, practitioners, and community members to engage with one another. 

The mission of the Fralin Museum of Art is to encourage the spirit of curiosity and promote a range of perspectives through the study, care, and celebration of art. 

We invite everyone to experience art together, to recognize the multi-faceted power of art, learn together, tap into your own inner creative, and experience artworks and artists as a community. Every day we use artworks from our collection of nearly 14,000 objects to enrich the UVA student experience, enliven our city, and inspire those near and far. Highlights of the collection include European and American painting, photography, works on paper, African art, Asian art, Pre-Columbian art, and Native American art.

Lucie Stylianopoulos (Librarian for Art, Archaeology, Classics, and Indigenous Studies at UVA) created the LibGuide for Indigenous Studies at UVA. The guide includes many open access resources, as well as links to databases such as American Indian Histories and Cultures, and American Indian Newspapers.

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) is a research unit of the University of Virginia established in 1992. Our goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications development, and networked publishing facilities. We also cultivate partnerships and participate in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and other groups residing at the intersection of computers and cultural heritage. IATH projects include:

• A Worldview in Words: Lexical Categories of the Mopan Maya encompasses a multimedia archive of Mopan Maya texts. 
• The Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive was conceived as a way of preserving, integrating, and disseminating some of the rich documentary material that has been produced on the Arapesh languages traditionally spoken by some twenty five thousand villagers living on the coast and in the Torricelli hills of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. 
• The Chaco Research Archive is a collaborative effort to create an online archive and analytical database that integrates much of the widely dispersed archaeological data collected from Chaco Canyon from the late 1890s through the first half of the 20th century.
• The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project

The Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures (IHGC) at UVA offers a vision at once local and global, and a mission both academic and socially engaged. The IHGC aims to:

• Generate exciting research and curricular innovation in global humanities and the Global South
• Attract the world’s best researchers to Virginia
• Create a broad cross-disciplinary research community
• Build collaborative partnerships with institutions nationally and internationally
• Offer a conducive training ground for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars
• Support undergraduate curricular and co-curricular initiatives
• Promote the arts
• Foster civic training
• Facilitate extensive public engagement
• Advocate the value of the humanities in the public sphere.

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian art.

Vision: A world in which Indigenous peoples are listened to, and their arts and cultures are honored and celebrated.

Mission: To expand knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Australian arts and cultures to cultivate greater appreciation of human diversity and creativity.

 Values: 

• We respect Indigenous people as the authorities on their art and culture, and we strive to amplify their voices.
• We collaborate with partners across the globe to deepen our impact and extend our reach.
• We create inclusive and welcoming environments that promote cross-cultural dialogue.
• We aim to inspire discovery through research and experiential learning.
• We steward all of our resources – our collections, facilities, staff and volunteers – with care and respect.

At UVA, we are working as a community to engage in meaningful and reciprocal relations with sovereign Indigenous Nations and Tribal communities, especially the 11 sovereign nations in Virginia. See our Tribal Relations page for information, news, and updates on these efforts.

The Tribal Liaison position was created to serve two interconnected needs: one, to act as a resource for Tribal communities, especially the sovereign Nations, in their relationships with UVA, and second, to coordinate initiatives relating to Native American and Indigenous peoples across departments, schools, and administrative units at UVA. This includes building relationships and raising awareness in support of student, faculty, staff, and tribal community success.

• The University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab encourages students and researchers from across the disciplines to partner on digital projects and benefit from expert consultation and teaching. Our highly-trained faculty and staff focus especially on the digital humanities, geospatial information, and scholarly making and building at the intersection of our digital and physical worlds. 
• Robertson Media Center in Clemons Library
• Makerspace in Alderman Library
• Visual Resources Collection in the Department of Art
• Maker Grounds @ UVA - maps and locations of maker spaces on Grounds

ArcGIS/Storymaps - StoryMaps is a web application builder that allows you to give context to your ArcGIS Online maps. Whether telling a story, giving a tour or comparing historic maps, StoryMaps is an easy-to-use application that creates a polished presentation.

Virginia Humanities is the state humanities council. We’re headquartered in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia, but we serve the entire state. We aim to share the stories of all Virginians—or, better yet, find ways for people to share their own stories. We want Virginians to connect with their history and culture and, in doing that, we hope we’ll all get to know each other a little better. We offer grants and fellowships to showcase and help preserve the Commonwealth’s diverse history, heritage, and folklife traditions. See our Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Virginia Indians, and The Virginia Indian Archive, a collection of images, documents, and audiovisual resources representing the history and cultural experiences of Virginia Indians since colonial times.