Last summer, the University Libraries launched OneSearch, a new search and discovery tool that integrates physical materials, such as books, DVDs and CDs as well as our vast collection of e-books, e-audiobooks, streaming video, databases, online journals and articles, into one single interface. We sincerely appreciate everyone’s feedback so far, and as a result of your suggestions, have made several improvements […]
Month: October 2020
Library Minute: East End Collaboratory
Boatwright Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab has had the great privilege of working with the East End Cemetery Collaboratory to develop an online map of the East End Cemetery . The East End Cemetery is an historic African American burial ground in Henrico County and the City of Richmond. For several years the Collaboratory—a collaboration between faculty, staff, and students at UR and VCU with […]
Lincoln In The Library
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College, is awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era. The prize was established in 1990 by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Dr. Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the […]
Library Minute: Early Views of Richmond
Two new additions to the Galvin Rare Book Room collection offer a glimpse of life in the Richmond and surrounding areas during the late 1700s. Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 by the Marquis de Chastellux (1787) and A Tour in the United States of America… written by J.F.D. Smyth (1784) describe journeys around the country, and both men visited […]