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AI + Records Management: A New Era for Information Control

Every April, organizations across industries celebrate Records Management Month, as it is a time dedicated to recognizing the critical role that records and information professionals…

Teshawna ThreatApril 8, 2026

Archives Conservation The Stacks

The Winners of $2.25 Million in Circuit Court Record Preservation Grants for 2026!

March 24, 2026 The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on March 24, 2026, to evaluate 151 grant requests from 104 circuit…

Library of VirginiaApril 6, 2026

Archives Education & Programming

April 1st is No Joke for the United States Census

April 1 is not only April Fool's Day, but every decade for more than 100 years it has also been Census Day, the official day…

John DealApril 1, 2026

The Stacks Virginia Authors

New Books – March 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 HattonMarch 30, 2026

Archives Newspapers

There’s Blood in the Salad Part II: The Clean Up

Editor's Note: This is part two of a two-part series. You can read the first part here. This case was grueling. What started as a…

Mary Ann Mason, They/ThemMarch 25, 2026

The Stacks

Free to View: The Virginia State Library Film Lending Service

Decades before Netflix mailed its first DVDs, and even before you could ride your Huffy down to the local Blockbuster or Hollywood Video for a…

Vince BrooksMarch 23, 2026

Archives Digital Projects

Joseph Jenkins Roberts: Norfolk to Liberia to Norfolk

In the 1940s, as shipyards and military installations swelled with new workers and service members, the city rushed to construct housing developments to accommodate them.…

Lauren CaravatiMarch 18, 2026

Peter Francisco, or “A Horse, A Horse, My Petition for A Horse”

I am a relatively new hire at the Library of Virginia, having joined in January of this year as the coordinator of a VA250-funded project,…

Eric JohnsonMarch 16, 2026

Newspapers

New News!: Virginia Chronicle Updates

As the page count on Virginia Chronicle approaches seven million, the already wide array of digitized newspapers available continues to grow. This month, over 310,000…

Kelley EwingMarch 11, 2026

Public Libraries

Reading Our Way Around the Library: A Library Staff Book Club

In my pre-librarian life as a Foreign Service spouse, I discovered that starting a book club when I arrived at a new post was a…

Your Local Public LibrarianMarch 9, 2026

The Stacks Virginia Authors

Cookbooks & Food-Related Volumes Hold Virginia Stories

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 1, 2025. The Library of Virginia’s…

Annie HattonMarch 4, 2026

Archives Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

Never Built: Virginia’s Unrealized Architectural Legacy

In 2008, the Library of Virginia presented an exhibition titled Never Built Virginia to highlight examples of structures that never were and pose the question,…

Vince BrooksMarch 2, 2026

Archives Digital Projects Education & Programming

A Moment of Reflection for Black History Month

One hundred years ago this month, Dr. Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week which, decades later, became Black History Month. Since 1968, February has…

Lydia NeurothFebruary 25, 2026

The Stacks Virginia Authors

New Books – February 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 HattonFebruary 23, 2026

Archives The Stacks

Newly-Available Archival Accessions, October 1-December 31, 2025

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 HizerFebruary 20, 2026