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The Library of Virginia e-Newsletter
April 2009


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Sandra TreadwayTreadway Selected for 2009 Inaugural Class of Influential Women in Virginia


Virginia Lawyers Weekly has selected Librarian of Virginia Sandra G. Treadway as one of the 2009 Inaugural Class of Influential Women in Virginia. This new awards program recognizes the outstanding efforts of women in the commonwealth in all fields, including law, business, health care, education, and the arts...

Library Seeks Docents

The Library of Virginia is seeking enthusiastic, highly motivated, and dependable individuals to serve as volunteer docents. Docents will greet and welcome visitors to the Library. Docents will also have the opportunity to guide tours of the Library’s changing exhibitions, both in its main gallery and the lobby, and answer questions about their content. Additionally, docents will be called upon to serve as educational instructors for school-age visitors, and may assist in the development of the Library’s educational programs...

Cast Your Vote for the 6th Annual People’s Choice Awards

The Library of Virginia is presenting the 6th Annual People’s Choice Awards, honoring readers' favorite books by Virginia authors or on Virginia topics published in 2008.

Finalists in fiction and nonfiction were selected by an independent panel of judges from the books nominated for the 12th Annual Library of Virginia Awards. The winners of the People’s Choice Awards for nonfiction and fiction will be chosen from these finalists by readers voting at libraries, bookstores, and online at...

Williamsburg Regional Library Blog Wins National Award

"Blogging for a Good Book," a book-reviewing tool created and managed by Williamsburg Regional Library, was selected as the winner of the 2009 Reference and User Services Association's Louis Shores/Greenwood Publishing Group Award. The award, which carries a $3,000 cash prize, recognizes excellence in book and media reviewing...

Rockbridge Regional Library and Fairfax County Public Library Receive ICMA Public Library Innovation Grants

Rockbridge Regional Library and Fairfax County Public Library are recipients of Public Library Innovation Grants, made possible by ICMA’s partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The International City/County Management Association is the premier local government leadership and management organization...

Send Us Your Golden Gift Certificates

Ukrop's Golden Gift The Library of Virginia Foundation is participating in the Ukrop's Golden Gift Program. Every time you shopped at Ukrop's and used your UVC card between March 2 and March 28, 2009, you earned one Golden Gift Point for every $1 spent. The more you shopped, the more you earned...

Armentrout Is New Library Consultant

Kim Armentrout, director of the Powhatan County Public Library for the past 11 years, will join the staff of the Library of Virginia as public library consultant in late July. As a public library consultant she will support the development of public libraries by providing timely and accurate information services to public library directors, trustees, Friends of the Library, and local government on library management, grants, continuing education, and training...
Fun & (almost all) Free at the library in April
Most events are free and are open to the public. For specific locations, times, and details on the events listed below please visit our calendar of events.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Lincoln, God, and Emancipation: A Promise Fulfilled
Dr. Lucas Morel, Lincoln scholar and professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, speaks about the origins and implications of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Richmond Again Taken: A Sampling of Photographs of Richmond in 1865
National Park Service Ranger Michael Gorman will present a sampling of photographs made in Richmond in 1865. Many of these photographs are being shown publicly for the first time...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

"And Now the Nightmare Is Gone": Abraham Lincoln & the Fall of the Confederacy
Former American Civil War Center staff member Jimmy Price discusses the context of Lincoln's 1865 visit to Richmond and its historical significance...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lincoln Walk: Self-guided Walk with Stationed Interpretation
This approximately 90-minute self-guided walking tour of downtown Richmond features stationed interpretation along the route traveled by Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad on their visit to Richmond on April 4, 1865, following the evacuation of Richmond by the Confederate government and its occupation by the Union military...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lincoln Literary Reading
Readings of poems and essays by Virginia contributors of the National League of American Pen Women to “Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln: A Commemorative Collage,” published by the NLAPW. Free to the public, no reservation required...

An Interruption That Laster a Lifetime Tuesday, April 14, 2009

An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years
Dr. E. Bruce Heilman, chancellor of the University of Richmond and former University of Richmond president, discusses and signs his poignant memoir, An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years...

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Managing Your Records (and we don’t just mean your jazz collection!)
Records analysts present a workshop for members of the public addressing the challenges of and strategies for maintaining personal records...

Monday, April 20, 2009

Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia
In honor of Earth Day, Margaret T. Peters, historian and publication manager at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources from 1968 to 2002, discusses and signs Conserving the Commonwealth...

First Family Thursday, April 30, 2009

First Family
Internationally best-selling author David Baldacci discusses First Family, featuring former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell...

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