The Rare Books and Special Collections division of the libraryhas opened a new portion of the Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt Tee Walker Collection for research and use with the release of new audiovisual materials now available. Digitized from their original 8mm recordings, the five films included in the collection offer some distinctive moving image materials for researchers to explore and study. […]
Category: Library Minute
Library Minute: OneSearch Update
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]