Last week’s Library Minute by University Librarian Kevin Butterfield highlighted some of the exciting new changes coming to Boatwright Memorial Library and specifically to the B1 level as it goes under construction for the 2021-22 academic year. The Rare Books, Special Collections & Book Arts team is very much looking forward to moving into new spaces next summer, areas that […]
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Library Minute: Welcome Back!
On behalf of the University of Richmond Libraries, I thank all faculty and staff for your efforts over the last year. We have come far together and will continue our growth throughout the upcoming academic year. Library staff worked hard and creatively to support faculty, staff, and students through this challenging year. We all look forward to seeing new and […]
Library Minute: O’Reilly Books Online
If you have a little extra time this summer and want to boost your technology skills, try O’Reilly Books Online. O’Reilly was founded in 1978 by Tim O’Reilly as a technical writing and consulting firm and has become one of the industry’s leading providers of computing and programming resources. They later expanded into conferences, online learning sites, coined the Web 2.0 phrase, […]
Library Minute: New Materials Added to the Galvin Rare Book Room Collections
Many new materials were added across Boatwright Library’s Galvin Rare Book Room rare book, archival, and artists’ book collections. New items added to the rare book collection include travel related works focusing on travel across North America in the colonial and early republic periods and on the Amazon River, an 1815 study on pneumonia with a section on medicine in […]
Library Minute: A Look Inside Library Cataloging and Congratulations to Leigh McDonald
If you’ve ever discovered something in Library by doing an online search, chances are you have a cataloger to thank for making that possible. Cataloging, simply put, is the process of creating and maintaining metadata to describe an information resource (books, journals, multimedia, etc.). This metadata includes everything from basic information about a resource (title, author, publisher, format, physical description, etc.), […]