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You Have No Right: Law and Justice in Virginia – Citizenship ArchivesEducation & ProgrammingManuscripts & Special Collections

You Have No Right: Law and Justice in Virginia – Citizenship

Editor’s Note: This blog post contains information from the Library of Virginia's 2012–2013 exhibition "You Have No Right: Law and Justice in Virginia" developed by…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneOctober 19, 2026
Life, Death & Archives Black and white photography of a fenced cemetery. Notes in the margins of the photograph.ArchivesDigital ProjectsManuscripts & Special CollectionsThe Stacks

Life, Death & Archives

The primary purpose of an archive is to act as a center for memory. This memory can be preserved in emails sent 2 months ago…
Mary Ann Mason, They/Them
Mary Ann Mason, They/ThemOctober 14, 2026
A Subterranean Story Time Public Libraries

A Subterranean Story Time

This summer, libraries across Virginia held programs and events tying in with the theme “Unearth a Story”. For patrons of the Shenandoah County Library in…
Your Local Public Librarian
Your Local Public LibrarianOctober 12, 2026
The Marquis de Lafayette and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Revolutionary War ArchivesEducation & Programming

The Marquis de Lafayette and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Revolutionary War

The Marquis de Lafayette's farewell tour of America in 1824–1825 inspired an unprecedented outpouring of affection for the aging hero of the Revolutionary War. During…
Lee Ann Timreck
Lee Ann TimreckOctober 7, 2026
Clearing the Clutter: How to Host an Email Deletion Party Records Management

Clearing the Clutter: How to Host an Email Deletion Party

Deleting emails is often a mundane task everyone dreads doing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. This article explores ways to make email…
Emily Johnson
Emily JohnsonOctober 5, 2026
Finis: The End of the House of Burgesses Archives

Finis: The End of the House of Burgesses

Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 2, 2026. One of the…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordSeptember 30, 2026
New Books – September 2026 The StacksVirginia Authors

New Books – September 2026

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…
Annie Hatton
Annie HattonSeptember 28, 2026
Cutting Edge Art: Fore-Edge Paintings in Special Collections Manuscripts & Special Collections

Cutting Edge Art: Fore-Edge Paintings in Special Collections

Fifteen books in the Library of Virginia’s Special Collections are hiding a secret. Underneath their gilded pages hides a fascinating type of book art: a…
Amanda Allgood
Amanda AllgoodSeptember 23, 2026
Black Lung Still Kills: Pneumoconiosis in the Commonwealth Archives

Black Lung Still Kills: Pneumoconiosis in the Commonwealth

When I clicked on a recent National Public Radio story about Black Lung disease in Appalachia, I expected the story to profile workers in West…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksSeptember 21, 2026
Who Owns the Story of Lottie Moon? Education & ProgrammingNewspapers

Who Owns the Story of Lottie Moon?

In the early 1960s, the Girls Auxiliary at First Baptist Church in Virginia Beach was popular with the congregation's parents. A national program founded by…
Leila Christenbury
Leila ChristenburySeptember 16, 2026
Picturing Where Stories Live: A Look Inside Public Libraries

Picturing Where Stories Live: A Look Inside

Founded in 1928, Massanutten Regional Library (MRL) is a seven-branch system that serves over 160,000 residents in the city of Harrisonburg, Page County, and Rockingham…
Your Local Public Librarian
Your Local Public LibrarianSeptember 14, 2026
Transforming the Future of Libraries & Archives 2026 The Stacks

Transforming the Future of Libraries & Archives 2026

For college students, summertime is invaluable. This period away from school can take many forms. It’s perfect for catching up on sleep, scheduling those oft-ignored…
Rachel Murphy-Weast
Rachel Murphy-WeastSeptember 9, 2026
Old School Tech ArchivesDigital Projects

Old School Tech

Many school librarians now-a-days take care of more than just books. Some have even been given the title “Media Specialist” (rather than the more traditional…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettSeptember 2, 2026
Six Bills of Sale, Seven Enslaved People ArchivesDigital ProjectsManuscripts & Special Collections

Six Bills of Sale, Seven Enslaved People

When I first listened to a voicemail from Boyd Greever back in March of this year, I assumed he just wanted to chat about his…
Lydia Neuroth
Lydia NeurothAugust 26, 2026
More Than a Policy: Enslaved Life Insurance and Virginia’s Industrial Economy ArchivesManuscripts & Special Collections

More Than a Policy: Enslaved Life Insurance and Virginia’s Industrial Economy

Many of us know what a life insurance policy looks like. Even if we have never owned one, we understand its basic purpose: a person…
Michelle Evans Oliver
Michelle Evans OliverAugust 24, 2026
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