WHISK, a popular Shockoe Bottom bakery known for its inventive takes on French and American pastries, now has a location in our lobby. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, WHISK at the Library of Virginia offers indoor and outdoor seating. The menu includes handcrafted sandwiches, salads and soups made with locally sourced ingredients as well as a full-service coffee, espresso and smoothie bar. Online ordering is also available at https://lnkd.in/eFySCVkA
Library of Virginia
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Richmond, virginia 1,672 followers
The state's oldest institution dedicated to the preservation of Virginia's history and culture.
About us
The Library is one of the oldest agencies of Virginia government, founded in 1823 to preserve and provide access to the state's incomparable printed and manuscript holdings. Our collection, which has grown steadily through the years, is the most comprehensive resource in the world for the study of Virginia history, culture, and government. VISION The Library of Virginia will inspire learning, ignite imagination, create possibilities, encourage understanding, and engage Virginia's past to empower its future. MISSION As the Commonwealth's library and archives, the Library of Virginia is a trusted educational institution. We acquire, preserve, and promote access to unique collections of Virginia's history and culture and advance the development of library and records management services statewide.
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https://www.lva.virginia.gov/
External link for Library of Virginia
- Industry
- Libraries
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Richmond, virginia
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1823
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800 East Broad Street
Richmond, virginia 23219, US
Employees at Library of Virginia
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Amy C. Winegardner
Senior Graphic Designer at the Library of Virginia (Commonwealth of Virginia)
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Alicia Starliper
Registrar
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Mark Andre Singer
Formerly: Reference Librarian at Sausalito Public Library, Mill Valley Public Library, Contra Costa Community College
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Sarah Falls
Director of Public Services & Outreach at LVA and Doctoral Student at UNC-Greensboro, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
Updates
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Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day! This photo of King with family and friends ran in a March 1957 issue of the Tribune in Roanoke, Virginia, and can be read online at https://lnkd.in/ee8aNNad Fleming Emory Alexander, printer, journalist, minister and civic leader, began publishing the Tribune in 1941. Described in its masthead as "The only negro newspaper published in Southwest Virginia," the Tribune served communities from Virginia's Piedmont to the far reaches of Appalachia. The Library has digitized issues of the Tribune, from Aug. 1951 to Sept. 1957, available on our Virginia Chronicle website. #MartinLutherKingJr #MLK #BlackHistory #VirginiaHistory #VaChron #newspapers #archive
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Is one of of your New Year's resolutions to learn something new? Learn about the history of Virginians with our newly scanned yearbooks from Henrico County and Richmond high schools thanks to the IMLS, LYRASIS and the Richmond Public Library. Check out all our Virginia digitized yearbooks at https://lnkd.in/eEgw-fm2 Images from: The Marshallite, John Marshall High School, 1916 https://lnkd.in/e2azXqSF La Plume, Marshall-Walker High School, 1986 https://lnkd.in/eauNSgp3 Monticello, Thomas Jefferson High School, 1968 https://lnkd.in/eB3prXA3 The Historian, Douglas Southall Freeman High School, 1958 https://lnkd.in/evmXfqbi
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Be sure to join us at the Library of Virginia on Feb. 12 at 12 p.m for a free talk by author Linwood Norman on his new book, “When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City.” Norman, a former press secretary to the mayor, skillfully recounts the turmoil of Richmond’s transition to the “strong mayor” model of local government during what was a memorable chapter in the city’s rich political history that is still deliberated today, more than 15 years after Wilder’s charismatic tenure concluded. A book signing will follow the talk. Register and learn more information at https://lnkd.in/e4sGb4wG #nonfiction #VirginiaHistory #BlackHistory #VirginiaGovernment #politics #booktalk
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Please note that from Tuesday, Jan. 28 to Friday, Jan. 31, the Library's Archives Research Room will be closed, and public research services will be limited. Questions? Visit our Contact Us webpage at https://lnkd.in/euPdFTBS. #closing
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The Library will be closed Saturday, Jan. 18 through Monday, Jan. 20 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. View https://lnkd.in/eDjvFEut to see our regular hours. Image from the Library's Visual Studies Collection.
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In the days before texting, little was more more thrilling than receiving a letter from one’s beloved. We kick off #UniversalLetterWritingWeek with one of many correspondence collections held at the Library — a set of 97 letters and postcards between Lunenburg County’s Lura Royall and her fiancé, Russian émigré Vladimir Sournin. This intense correspondence was tucked away from prying eyes, stashed among bills and statements in a courthouse filing system. Read more of the story and the letters at https://lnkd.in/eMy3pWCN #write #snailmail #archives #familyhistory
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Thank you to the Richmond Free Press for promoting our upcoming virtual talk, Jan. 22, noon to 1 p.m., on the 19th-century mapping project that led to the creation of the first official map of the Commonwealth of Virginia. https://lnkd.in/eia4vSwn You can register for the talk at https://lnkd.in/eGX_Rjip. #maps #cartography #surveyor #VirginiaHistory #MappingTheCommonwealth #geography
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Great post for #NationalHobbyMonth on the Library’s Family History at LVA Facebook page. Follow for additional resources specific to #familyhistory and #genealogy. https://lnkd.in/ed4PmFX5
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