Monthly Archives: December 2014

Happy New Year From Us to You!

by archivistkira Posted on December 30, 2014

Hard to believe it’s almost 2015! Hopefully, our readers out there have a fun way to ring in the new year. If you’re having guests and are still looking for the right drink to fill your punch bowl, we wanted to offer a selection or two of the bubbly. Here’s How: Mixed Drinks is a 1941 […] Continue reading →

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Book Review: Open Access and the Humanities

by Philip Young Posted on December 30, 2014

Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Martin Eve’s new book is a welcome examination of the unique challenges that the humanities face in open access publishing. Appropriately enough, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A New Collection and a New Look at Virginia Tech’s Architectural Style

by adriennearchivist Posted on December 19, 2014

An important bit of Virginia Tech history came through our doors recently in a unique form- a collection of 8 x 10 glass plate negatives of architectural drawings and artist renderings that were made by the architectural firm Carneal and Johnston. These designs were made for several campus buildings in the 1910’s, including the original […] Continue reading →

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Ring Out 2014–Culinary Arts Institute Style!

by archivistkira Posted on December 19, 2014

2015 is around the corner, which means it’s time for me to dig out the holiday cookbooks. I thought about a post full of candy, but it’s important to remember this time of year isn’t ALL about sweets. That being said, our feature item this week still has its fair share of holiday dessert classics. […] Continue reading →

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Civil War Correspondence as Art?

by archivistkira Posted on December 12, 2014

Today’s post is about a letter. In some ways, it’s unique (it IS one of a kind, after all), and in some ways, it adds to the canon of Civil War correspondence written home. But this letter has a little something extra. It’s a letter from Isaac Cox to his wife, written June 29, 1862. At the […] Continue reading →

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The U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue…Pre-Prohibition

by archivistkira Posted on December 12, 2014

Last Saturday (December 5) was Repeal Day. Eighty-one years ago, on December 5, 1933, Prohibition ended in the United States. You might think this means we’re going to talk about cocktails this week. Or Prohibition. But instead, we’re going to go a bit farther back. Before there was a ban on alcohol, it was still […] Continue reading →

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A Bovine Round-Up

by archivistkira Posted on December 5, 2014

Our last post looked at turkeys, since it was just before Thanksgiving. (Hope you all had a lovely holiday, by the way!) This week, continuing with the agriculture theme, I thought we’d look at some books about bovines and milk products. We have a couple of particularly unique new items on the subject that just arrived, […] Continue reading →

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Remembering Solitude, 1908-1914

by uarctk Posted on December 4, 2014

“Blacksburg, Virginia, 1908-1914” offers a rare glimpse of what it was like to live in Solitude. The narrative is Chapter II in a larger work, We Remember, that Stevenson Whitcomb and Margaret Rolston Fletcher wrote for their children and their children’s children. Dr. Robert H. Fletcher, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (son of Steve, […] Continue reading →

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OpenCon 2014 Reports from Virginia Tech Grad Students

by Philip Young Posted on December 2, 2014

As part of Open Access Week, the University Libraries and the Graduate School offered two travel scholarships to OpenCon 2014, a conference for early career researchers on open access, open data, and open educational resources. From a pool of many … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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