During this time of home confinement, many of you may have decided to launch into one of those time-consuming projects that you never had time…
Leslie CourtoisApril 29, 2020
Surveys estimate that over 15 percent of collections in U.S. institutions need immediate preservation or conservation attention. In order to raise awareness about the state…
Jessi BennettApril 24, 2019
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 24 July 2018 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
Greg CrawfordAugust 24, 2018
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 24 August 2017 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
Greg CrawfordSeptember 21, 2017
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 18 January 2017 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant requests from…
Greg CrawfordMarch 1, 2017
The naming of the local history and genealogy reading room at Newport News Public Library after Martha Woodroof Hiden is well deserved. Born in Orange…
Eddie WoodwardJanuary 18, 2017
Last summer, the Westmoreland County Circuit Court Clerk Gwynne Chatham contacted the Library of Virginia concerning old marriage records that staff discovered in her office.…
Greg CrawfordJanuary 4, 2017
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 14 December 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
Vince BrooksFebruary 10, 2016
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 11 June 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
Vince BrooksJuly 27, 2015
Last year, The Augusta County Genealogical Society generously donated rare African American newspapers to the Library of Virginia. While the collection is comprised of a…
Kelley EwingOctober 3, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwMmz892Bo The Virginia Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Part of the Library of Virginia’s Local Records Services…
Bari HelmsAugust 31, 2012
The Executive Papers of Governor Thomas Jefferson, 1779-1781, have been named one of Virginia’s top ten endangered artifacts by the Virginia Association of Museums.…
Bari HelmsDecember 12, 2011
On Tuesday June 14, a team of archivists were in Hampton to assist circuit court clerk Linda Batchelor Smith in completing a records inventory…
Dale DulaneyJune 27, 2011
In 1996, Samuel Cooper, circuit court clerk of Accomack County, contacted the Library of Virginia about a large amount of county records he found in…
Greg CrawfordApril 27, 2011
