List members,

October is Archives Month in Virginia.  Archives Month celebrates those
individuals and institutions that help preserve and make accessible the
important records of our actions as citizens, as businesses, as
religious groups, as governments, and as a society.  

Please join us in celebrating archives in Virginia by attending one of
events planned in Richmond, Roanoke, and Williamsburg.  More information
and images from the Archives Month poster are available at
www.lva.virginia.gov/archivesmonth

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Conley L. Edwards
State Archivist
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA  23219
Telephone:  804-692-3554
Fax:           804-692-3603
New e-mail address:  [log in to unmask]
 
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Tuesday, October 7
Special Collections Open House and Exhibition Opening:
Ringing Far and Near: Student Music and Song at the College of William
and Mary
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM
Place: College of William and Mary's Swem Library, Ukrop Way,
Williamsburg
Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center presents an open
house and exhibition opening. Ringing Far and Near: Student Music and
Song at the College of William and Mary will highlight music on campus
from the early 20th century to the present, including everything from
the choir and ensembles sponsored by the Department of Music, to a
cappella groups, the marching band, student rock bands, and everything
in between.

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Thursday, October 9
Book Talk and Signing:
Archives of the New Dominion and Uncovering Richmond's Gay and Lesbian
Past
Time: Noon
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms A-B, 800 East Broad St.,
Richmond
Alex Lorch, interim head of Special Collections and Archives, Virginia
Commonwealth University Libraries, will speak about the Archives of the
New Dominion project and its effort to locate, secure, and make
accessible the history and archives of Central Virginia's African
American, gay and lesbian, Latino/Latina, and women's activist
communities. He will talk in greater detail about the history of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Richmonders whose stories were
uncovered due to the efforts of the Archives of the New Dominion
project. After the talk, Lorch will be available to sign copies of
Lesbian and Gay Richmond, which he wrote with co-author Beth Marschak.

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Wednesday, October 15
Lecture:
Unraveling the Stories of the Past: Women as Archivists in "Virginia's
Historical Laboratory"
Time: Noon
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms A-B, 800 East Broad St.,
Richmond
Library of Virginia archivist Jennifer Davis McDaid will talk about the
experiences of women students from Westhampton College who worked as
archival apprentices in the Virginia State Library (now the Library of
Virginia) from 1916 to 1924. State archivist Morgan P. Robinson trained
the apprentices to be careful researchers and potential historians.
Their experiences, glimpsed in the Library's annual reports, the
occasional letter and newspaper article, and Robinson's personal papers,
provide us with an intriguing snapshot of a time when change was coming
quickly for women, for Virginia, and for the archival profession.

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Thursday, October 16
Documentary Screening and Discussion:
Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South
Time: 7:00-9:30 PM
Place: Hollins University's Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins Room, 3rd
Floor, 7950 East Campus Drive, Roanoke
Join us for a screening of the documentary Down in the Old Belt: Voices
from the Tobacco South (57 minutes) by James P. Crawford. The film
traces the history and culture of tobacco in the Old Belt of Virginia.
Based on interviews and oral histories of 26 Old Belt tobacco farming
families, Down in the Old Belt reveals tobacco's historic decline in
context to the land and its farming people. Following the screening,
Crawford will discuss his research and answer questions. A reception
will follow. This event is proudly sponsored by Roanoke Public
Libraries, Hollins University, Roanoke College, and the History Museum
of Western Virginia.

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Tuesday, October 21
Archives Fair
Time: 11:00 AM-3:00 PM
Place: Virginia Historical Society, Cabell Gallery/Halsey Lecture Hall,
428 North Boulevard, Richmond
What do archivists do? What types of collections are at the archives and
special collections libraries in Virginia? Representatives from several
institutions will talk informally about their holdings, publicize
collections, provide informational handouts, and answer questions for
the general public.

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Saturday, October 25
Friends of the Archives Richard Slatten Lecture Featuring Noted Speaker
and Genealogist Patricia Law Hatcher
Time: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad Street,
Richmond
Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members, and $45 for admissions and
membership.
Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, a noted speaker and genealogist specializing
in problem solving, has been asked to speak on the following topics:
Developing a Colonial Mindset
Evaluating Evidence-a Methodology for Every Day
"They Just Showed Up!" Where to Look When You Don't Know Where to Look
Power Tools-The Power is in You, Not the Tool.

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Wednesday, October 29
Book Talk:
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid
the World of Mental Illness
Time: Noon
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad Street,
Richmond
Author Jack El-Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of
neurologist and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS
documentary The Lobotomist. El-Hai, whose work is based in part on
archival research in Freeman's personal papers at the George Washington
University, takes readers into one of the darkest chapters of American
medicine-the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of
psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the
20th century, before the introduction of effective psychiatric
medication in the 1950s. A book sale and signing will follow the talk.

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October 1-31
Archives Month Exhibition:
Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: The Archival Footprint on
Society
Place: Library of Virginia Lobby, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond
This exhibition highlights records documenting two major social
movements in Virginia's history: the struggle for equal rights for
women, including the right to vote; and the civil rights movement,
particularly the onset of segregation and the slow road to
desegregation.

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Mid-October to February 2009
Archives Month Exhibition:
School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia
Place: Old Dominion University's Perry Library Lobby, 4427 Hampton
Boulevard, Norfolk
As part of Archives Month and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
end of Massive Resistance, Old Dominion University Libraries will
present the exhibition School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia. A
digital collection of this material is available online
<http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/schooldesegregation/> .

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October 2
Oral History Workshop:
Recording Oral History: Technology and Techniques
Place: Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, Richmond
Contact Mary Virginia Currie, 804-342-9678.

 

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