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National Poetry Month 2024 with Laura Bylenok

Laura Bylenok is the author of three books, including Living Room, winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry; Warp, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize;…

Guest ContributorApril 19, 2024

Archives Education & Programming Newspapers

Indigenous Education in Virginia

As soon as English colonizers established themselves in Virginia, one of their main concerns was the education of Indigenous people. The education implemented by the…

Ashley CraigApril 17, 2024

Newspapers

New to Virginia Chronicle!

Earlier this year, several new titles were added to Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database. Among the latest additions are the earliest…

Kelley EwingApril 15, 2024

Virginia Authors

National Poetry Month 2024 with Gregory Orr

Gregory Orr is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Selected Books of the Beloved. He is also the…

Guest ContributorApril 12, 2024

“The Richmond Calamity”: The Capitol Collapse of 1870

On the morning of 27 April 1870, attorney Patrick Henry Aylett headed toward the Virginia Capitol to hear the Supreme Court of Appeals’ ruling on…

Lee Ann TimreckApril 10, 2024

Public Libraries

Survival Skills for the Zombie Apocalypse: Not Your Average Survivalist Program

Last year, during the swarm of programming that is summer reading, the Pulaski County Library System held a series of programs in collaboration with Claytor…

Your Local Public LibrarianApril 8, 2024

Archives Digital Projects The Stacks

Electronic Records: Still a Modern Dilemma

April is Records and Information Management Month, and to celebrate, I’d like to talk about one of the great question marks of the last several…

Chad OwenApril 3, 2024

Highlights Newspapers The Stacks

Recently Discovered Photos Reveal Truth!

Archivists recently discovered a previously unknown photograph in some unprocessed Civil War-era state government records. The records concerned President Abraham Lincoln’s April 1865 visit to…

Library of VirginiaApril 1, 2024

Archives The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Winter Circuit

And so, with my final week-long travel stay in Salem in August completed, my fellow traveler, Tracy Harter, and I settled into the post-frenzied-travel, winter…

Eddie WoodwardMarch 27, 2024

Archives Digital Projects

Acts of Valor in World War II

On March 25th, we commemorate National Medal of Honor Day, providing an opportunity to explore the stories of the fifteen Virginians who were honored with…

Lauren CaravatiMarch 25, 2024

The Centennial of the Law to Preserve Racial Integrity

March 20th marks the centennial of Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle signing the Racial Integrity Act (RIA) into law. In simplistic terms, the RIA required every…

Ashley CraigMarch 20, 2024

Virginia Authors

New Books – March 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 PletcherMarch 18, 2024

Manuscripts & Special Collections The Stacks

Newly Available Archival Accessions, October 1-December 31, 2023

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 HizerMarch 13, 2024

Public Libraries

This Library’s Knitting Program is Killing It

On a bone-chilling Wednesday evening in February, the Century Room on the lower level of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Gordon Avenue branch is set up…

Your Local Public LibrarianMarch 11, 2024

Archives The Stacks

Description for All Virginians: Inclusive Description Efforts at the Library of Virginia

Since its establishment in 1823, the Library of Virginia has been managed and staffed largely by white, middle class, cisgender people. Consequently, the collections stored…

Library of VirginiaMarch 6, 2024