Parsons Music Library celebrated its 25th anniversary on October 4, 2021. The library’s roots are in Keller Hall where, starting in 1954, a collection of scores and LP records was assembled to support the music curriculum (books about music were shelved at Boatwright Library). The first Music Librarian was Hannah Lide Coker, a Westhampton alumna who also taught music education. When the Fine […]
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Library Minute: Spring 2021 Interlibrary Loan Service
Boatwright’s Resource Sharing department is committed to delivering high quality materials to our users as quickly as possible this semester. Throughout the pandemic we have not stopped requesting and obtaining materials electronically – with research delivered right to your email inbox. We are also conveniently making non-electronic format (print) items available for pick up at the library. Please submit all of […]
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 […]
Boatwright Reopening Plans for Fall 2020
We are facing a challenging situation in which all of us are called on to make a good faith effort to be flexible and to make decisions in the best interest of the community, including staying home when sick. Persons who are sick should not come to the libraries. If you are ill and require research assistance, please contact us […]