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“When Victory Really Came” : Virginia Women Who Fought for the Vote Education & Programming

“When Victory Really Came” : Virginia Women Who Fought for the Vote

On 18 August 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, which was officially proclaimed on August 26. Although Virginia's General Assembly…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneAugust 19, 2020
“Bertha Weighed Over 800 Pounds”: 7 Questions with Dale Neighbors The Stacks

“Bertha Weighed Over 800 Pounds”: 7 Questions with Dale Neighbors

This is the latest blog entry in a series introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do on a day-to-day basis. If you are interested…
Dale Neighbors
Dale NeighborsAugust 17, 2020
Checking in on Virginia clerks Archives

Checking in on Virginia clerks

The Commonwealth of Virginia, the Library of Virginia, and the 120 circuit court clerks’ offices across the state can document the history of their collaborative…
Eddie Woodward
Eddie WoodwardAugust 12, 2020
Managing in a Pandemic Public Libraries

Managing in a Pandemic

Editor’s Note: The Commonwealth of Virginia’s library systems differ dramatically both in the size of their facilities and the amount of people they serve. The…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorAugust 10, 2020
Untying an Archival Knot: Determining Dates in an 18th-century Minute Book ArchivesConservation

Untying an Archival Knot: Determining Dates in an 18th-century Minute Book

Archivists enjoy creating order out of apparent disorder. Much like untying a stubborn knot, the process itself can be very satisfying. Archivists are familiar with…
Tracy Harter
Tracy HarterAugust 5, 2020
“Big Rock Candy Mountains Discovered Near Clintwood” Newspapers

“Big Rock Candy Mountains Discovered Near Clintwood”

While searching for an unrelated newspaper article for a library patron, I stumbled upon a unique piece of local news reporting in the 28 October…
Rebecca Schneider
Rebecca SchneiderAugust 3, 2020
Hunger Amidst Plenty: Congress, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Transformation of the Food Stamp Program ArchivesThe Stacks

Hunger Amidst Plenty: Congress, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Transformation of the Food Stamp Program

Editor's Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Humanities, sponsors residential fellows during the academic year to conduct in-depth research in the Library's…
Tracy Roof
Tracy RoofJuly 29, 2020
New Books – July 2020 Virginia Authors

New Books – July 2020

The Library of Virginia is now open by appointment only. During this initial reopening phase, researchers will be able to use the collections by appointment…
Donna Pletcher
Donna PletcherJuly 27, 2020
“Shoulder to Shoulder on the Picket Line”: Virginia Women Fight for Voting Rights Manuscripts & Special Collections

“Shoulder to Shoulder on the Picket Line”: Virginia Women Fight for Voting Rights

"I have been kept from the privilege of incoming or outgoing mail for over the past week and am now locked in a small cell…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneJuly 22, 2020
“I got hooked on archives!”: 7 Questions with Sonya Coleman The Stacks

“I got hooked on archives!”: 7 Questions with Sonya Coleman

In this series we introduce LVA employees and explore what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes on behind the scenes entries…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksJuly 20, 2020
Black Businesses in Antebellum Virginia Archives

Black Businesses in Antebellum Virginia

During the antebellum period in Virginia, enslaved men and women who gained their freedom did have the potential to enter into their own business and…
Robert Hines
Robert HinesJuly 15, 2020
The Pandemic Pivot Public Libraries

The Pandemic Pivot

Public libraries are nothing if not resourceful. We’ve done it for centuries, moving from a space which required a membership to being a place for…
Reagen Thalacker
Reagen ThalackerJuly 13, 2020
Transferring Knowledge: An Audio-Visual Digitization Internship Digital ProjectsThe Stacks

Transferring Knowledge: An Audio-Visual Digitization Internship

In the fall semester of 2019, which seems like years ago these days, I was lucky enough to wrap up my MLIS program with an…
Ben Steck
Ben SteckJuly 8, 2020
Finding Family in Transcribe Archives

Finding Family in Transcribe

This is an entry in our “Random Reference” series, which features interesting discoveries made and reference questions answered by our Archives & Library Reference Services…
Bill Bynum
Bill BynumJuly 6, 2020
What’d I Miss?: Diving Deeper into the History Behind Hamilton Education & Programming

What’d I Miss?: Diving Deeper into the History Behind Hamilton

While Lin Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical hit Hamilton takes some artistic liberties with our American Colonial past, there is a lot of history packed into…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaJuly 1, 2020
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