Fiscal year 2014 was a great year for University Libraries and the additions made to the Libraries collections reflect that. We are now primed and ready to take on the new academic year with a collection stocked with new electronic … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Virtues of Openness: Education, Science, and Scholarship in the Digital Age by Michael A. Peters and Peter Roberts (2012) will appeal to anyone interested in open movements in respect to academia. The book includes eight chapters (three of which … Continue reading → Continue reading
Some of our readers may know (and some of you may not) that Special Collections has a second blog. Launched in January 2014, it highlights materials from all of our collecting areas and features contributions from all our staff. Last week, our university archivist wrote a post about a handwritten cookbook we acquired last year. It […]
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In early 2013 VIVA launched a pilot program for Demand Driven Acquisitions of books in STEM-H disciplines. No new funding was provided in the state budget so the VIVA Collections Committee recommended the program be discontinued. Records for these items … Continue reading → Continue reading
This week, I have Prestons on the brain. Actually, it’s been going on for a while. In May, I gave a presentation about Special Collections’ holdings relating to the Preston family in Virginia and Smithfield/Solitude history. In about two weeks, I’ll be taking a small selection of materials to display at the Preston Family Reunion […]
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Minutes from the July 24, 2014 LAC meeting.
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Minutes from the July 24, 2014 LAC meeting.
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Google Analytics has released a plugin for the Chrome browser that provides quick and easy access to reports for a web page you are viewing (assuming you have permissions in GA for that report). If you have been added to the library’s GA account, you c… Continue reading
July is, among other things, National Culinary Arts Month* ! So, I thought we might look at some culinary arts reference books in the History of Food and Drink Collection–namely, some encyclopedias. They are from the more modern parts of the collection in terms of publication dates, but they represent hundreds of years of culinary arts history. […]
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Cora Bolton McBryde’s cookbook is a new treasure of the University Libraries’ Special Collections Department. The cookbook was a gift of Janet Watson Barnhill, great great granddaughter of President John McLaren McBryde and Cora Bolton McBryde. Known as the Father of the Modern VPI, McBryde served as president of Virginia Tech from 1891, when […]
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