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A half century of history and entertainment news available in the Rolling Stone Archive

By Mitch Farish |
The Library has the entire backfile of Rolling Stone magazine in the Rolling Stone Archive — now available in the Library’s A-Z Databases list from its beginning to the present: full-color scans, full-page content, cover-to-cover, including articles, editorials, and advertisements, with article-level indexing and searchable text.

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Unearthed: Examining the contents of a 111 year old time capsule

By Jeff Hill |
On September 12, 2020, the time capsule underneath the “At Ready”/“Johnny Reb” statue in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse came out of the ground after crews had carefully removed the tons of granite and bronze sitting over it.

Culture, engagement, and community, News and announcements, Preservation

Library Resource “Caribbean Newspapers” chronicles History of the West Indies through most of the 18th and 19th Centuries

By Mitch Farish |
The Library online resource "Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876" features publications from 22 islands, covering 150 years of Caribbean history (most of the 18th and 19th centuries) in more than 140 fully searchable titles.

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Library Resource has full Color, Archival Quality scans of Time and Life Magazines, including Ads

By Mitch Farish |
New! The Library offers full issues of Time and Life magazine online, cover to cover with all pictures and ads intact.

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Documenting and Preserving the Graffiti in Alderman Library’s Study Carrels

By Jeff Hill |
Ahead of a comprehensive renovation of Alderman Library that will affect most of the building, the students in the spring 2019 seminar course Literacy and Orality, taught by UVA Anthropology professor and documentary linguist Lise Dobrin, took it upon themselves to preserve an overlooked piece of UVA’s cultural record before it disappears: the scribbles, scratches, text, and art that for years have graced and defaced the library’s hidden study carrels.

Library stories, Renovation

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