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 […]
Author: Andy Morton
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 […]
Library Minute: Curbside Pickup @ Boatwright Library
Did you know that you can request materials from the libraries’ circulating collections for curbside pickup? The library’s new discovery system, OneSearch, provides a seamless way to request books and other materials. Here’s how to make a request: Go to https://library.richmond.edu and scroll down to the OneSearch box. Enter your search terms and click the magnifying glass icon. Find the item that you […]
Library Minute: Mapping Inequality
In partnership with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Boatwright Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab recently released a new project “Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining” that visualizes the connection between health disparities today to the infamous HOLC redlining maps of the 1930s. The site supplements a report from the NCRC that statistically analyzes those connections and offers a series of […]