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Records Room Road Trips: June 2024

My previous Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Road Trip post covered locality travel for May, so this is June’s travelogue. Back in late April…

Tracy HarterSeptember 25, 2024

Are You Smarter than a Literacy Test?

In 1920, Cora Cottman joined scores of other American women applying to vote for the very first time following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.…

McKenzie LongSeptember 23, 2024

Newspapers

A Tool for Teachers: NDNP’s Race and Ethnicity Thesaurus for Chronicling America

Sites like Chronicling America, the Library of Congress’s database of over 20,000,000 digitized newspaper pages, and Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database,…

Kelley EwingSeptember 18, 2024

Archives Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections The Stacks

Findability: The Role of Catalog Records and Finding Aids

The Library of Virginia has more than 50,000 collections and continues to grow. The Library’s archivists preserve those collections for future generations and then make…

Karen KingSeptember 16, 2024

Archives Digital Projects

Visualizing WWII Data: Making History Accessible

When we think of history, we often picture grand narratives and compelling stories that have shaped the world. Yet the way we engage with history…

Maitri PathakSeptember 11, 2024

Public Libraries

Borrow the Outdoors: Camping Gear at the Library

Do you want to go camping or hiking in the Shenandoah Valley? Maybe you have never camped before or want to get your family outside…

Guest ContributorSeptember 9, 2024

Newly-Available Archival Accessions, April 1-June 30, 2024

The Library of Virginia maintains the most comprehensive collection of information about Virginia’s history, culture, and government. We hold more than 200 million manuscript items,…

Trenton HizerSeptember 6, 2024

Archives Digital Projects

The Coroners’ Inquisitions Digital Collection is Now Live & Available for Transcription

Given the popularity of true crime documentaries, movies, and podcasts, it’s not surprising that researchers have likewise found the Library of Virginia’s Coroners’ Inquisitions a…

Mary Ann Mason, They/ThemSeptember 4, 2024

Spirits, Freeholders, and Aliens: Contested Elections in 18th Century Virginia

I recently came across the records of Contested Elections, and with the 2024 elections right around the corner, my interest was piqued. The cases span…

Dawn TinnellSeptember 2, 2024

The Stacks Virginia Authors

New Books – August 2024

The Library of Virginia's first-floor lobby and Exhibition Gallery are open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The second-floor Reading Rooms are open Tuesday-Friday, 9:00…

Donna PletcherAugust 30, 2024

Archives Digital Projects Education & Programming The Stacks

Inclusive Indexing: Gabriel’s Conspiracy Documents in Virginia Untold

Editor's Note: This summer, Transforming the Future of Libraries and Archives intern Kade McGrail assisted in several different projects for the Library’s Virginia Untold project.…

Lydia NeurothAugust 28, 2024

Archives Digital Projects Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

Transforming the Future of Libraries & Archives 2024

This summer the Library of Virginia was thrilled to welcome a cohort of six interns for the third year of our Transforming the Future of…

Library of VirginiaAugust 26, 2024

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Summer 2024

Have I mentioned that this was going to be an unusually slow travel season for me? Until recently, my courthouse visits had been sporadic and…

Eddie WoodwardAugust 21, 2024

Newspapers

Random Reference: Esperanto in Progressive Era Virginia

In February 1909, an unusual death notice appeared in a monthly magazine. Thirty-six-year-old Elizabeth Neely Warrington of Norfolk, Virginia, had died a few months earlier,…

Rebecca SchneiderAugust 19, 2024

Archives The Stacks

A Quick Guide to Records Management

This post acts as a mini-FAQ on some of the essentials of records management in Virginia, including hot topics like physical storage, retention schedules, and…

Library of VirginiaAugust 14, 2024