Thursday, January 10, 2008—Saturday, September 20, 2008
Treading the Boards: Celebrating the Barter and the Barksdale
Place: Lobby
FREE EVENT
This exhibition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Barter Theatre, in Abingdon, and the continued success of Richmond’s Barksdale Theatre.

Monday, June 16, 2008—Saturday, September 27, 2008
James Monroe 1758–1831
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Place: Café cases
FREE EVENT
James Monroe 1758–1831 will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the fifth president of the United States. Monroe led a life of service to Virginia and the United States that included not only the presidency but also US Senator, governor of Virginia, minister to Great Britain, secretary of state, and president of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830.

Monday, August 18, 2008—Saturday, December 20, 2008
From Williamsburg to Wills’s Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Place: Exhibition Gallery
FREE EVENT
This exhibition will focus on the sources and sequels of the Fry-Jefferson map, created by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1755. Among the items on display will be several editions of the Fry-Jefferson map, land surveys, and surveying equipment.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
See You in a Hundred Years
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
Limited seating, please call 804-692-3590 for details
Freelance writer Logan Ward talks about his family’s year of living as 19th-century subsistence farmers in Swoope, Virginia. The Wards adopted strict rules that limited them only to tools that were available at the turn of the century and managed to put food on the table as well as reconnect and rebuild their marriage. A book signing will follow the talk. This is a special event for members of the Page Turner Society and sponsors of the Library's annual literary awards. Seating for members of the public is limited.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Fry-Jefferson Map Society Fall Program
Time: 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
Free for members, $5 for non-members. Optional tour, Inside the Map Collection , and boxed lunch, at 11:00 AM. Lunch and tour additional cost of $15. For reservations call 804-692-3813.
The Fry-Jefferson Society will present two outstanding talks. Henry Taliaferro, principal in the New York antiquarian map firm of Cohen and Taliaferro, co-author of Degrees of Latitude and cartographic scholar from New York, will talk about the Fry Jefferson map—one of the most important 18th-century maps of Virginia and one of the greatest of the era. Willie Balderson, a specialist in 18th-century surveying techniques for Colonial Williamsburg, will demonstrate the surveying techniques behind the map, and, for that matter, behind the whole process of taking up land in Virginia. His talk is entitled Sating the Lust for Land: Your Friendly Surveyor Explains Taking Up Land in Virginia.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
“But Grandpapa Wishes It”: Thomas Jefferson As Seen by His Family & “Holding in Trust for the Use of Others”: Thomas Jefferson’s Grandchildren and the Creation of the Jefferson Image
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
J. Jefferson Looney, editor-in-chief of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, will speak on perceptions of Thomas Jefferson as seen by his children and grandchildren. Lisa A. Francavilla, managing editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, will discuss how Jefferson's grandchildren attempted to shape his image after his death.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Red, White, or Yellow?: The Media and the Military at War in Iraq
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
Charles "Chip" Jones, a former staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, will discuss and sign his newly released book Red, White, or Yellow. In 2007 he was embedded with a U.S. Marine Corps public affairs unit in Baghdad. In Red, White, or Yellow Jones applies more than 25 years' worth of reporting experience to write a detailed, in-depth chronicle of the media's coverage of the war.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Headmaster Ritual
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
Taylor Antrim discusses and signs his debut novel, The Headmaster Ritual, a darkly comic, clear-eyed look into the hidden worlds of an exclusive Massachusetts boarding school. Edward Wolfe, the school’s politically radical headmaster, Dyer Martin, a new history teacher, and lonely senior James Wolfe are inescapably drawn into the headmaster’s hidden agenda for Britton School.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
One Voice Concert—Why Don’t You Rock My Soul: A Celebration of Virginia Music
Time: 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
FEE. Tickets $10. Reservations required please call 804-692-3900.
Please join us for a Why Don’t You Rock My Soul: A Celebration of Virginia Music, a concert by One Voice, an interracial community chorus in Richmond that performs choral music and promotes racial reconciliation. This concert features music from the Library of Virginia’s collections. A 6:00 PM reception precedes this concert.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Time: 2:00 PM–3:00PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University, discusses and signs The Hemingses of Monticello, her epic work tracing the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Thomas Jefferson’s death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008—Friday, October 31, 2008
Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: The Archival Footprint on Society
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Place: Lobby
FREE EVENT
In celebration of Archives Month the Library of Virginia presents a special exhibition featuring 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 slow road to desegregation.