Rose Schooff – The UncommonWealth

“He was very brave, and though seriously ill he was always thinking of others…” : Influenza Claims a WWI Soldier

While working with the Virginia War History Commission WWI Questionnaires collection, I have often wondered what it must have been like living through that time,…

Rose SchooffApril 8, 2020

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

Those Who Served, Those Who Fell: War and the Yearbook

As the holiday season comes and goes, our thoughts turn to those who are away from home and those who will never see home again.…

Rose SchooffDecember 19, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Art of the Annual: The Virginia Yearbook Digitization Project

In 2015, I started the Library’s yearbook digitization project to scan yearbooks from all around Virginia on behalf of public libraries. Thanks to funds from…

Rose SchooffApril 18, 2018

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

W.C. and Earl and the Popular Girl: The Virginia Yearbook Project

In the summer of 2012, the Library Development and Networking Division started a project that included loaning scanners and computers to Virginia libraries in the…

Rose SchooffAugust 31, 2016