Congratulations to our Class of 2025 SCUA Student Assistant!
After a wonderful 2024-2025 academic year, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our three outstanding student assistants, Erica (Rickie) Berger, Haley Cot...
Category: Archives
Exploring History Through Books and Digital Collections: A Special Collections & Archives Internship
This post was written by Natalia Ramirez ’25, Special Collections & University Archives Intern, in April 2025. This semester, I have embraced the exci...
New Additions to the Alumni Oral History Collection: Stories from Black Alumni
In recent years, Special Collections and University Archives has been fortunate to partner with Dr. Erin Devlin’s History 441: Oral History class and Alum...
Great Lives in Rare Books: Dr. Bulent Atalay
This post was written by Haley Cotton ’25, Special Collections & University Archives Student Aide Dr. Bulent Atalay is a distinguished faculty member ...
History in Scrapbooks
This post was written by Sandy Llop, Fall 2024 Special Collections & University Archives Intern. Over the course of this academic year’s fall semester, I ha...
World Digital Preservation Day
When we think of archives, we often think of working with printed materials such as letters, scrapbooks, flyers, maps and newspapers. It’s frequently only in fu...
A Decade of Digital Convergence
Celebrating 10 years of the Hurley Convergence Center & Digital Archiving Lab Happy 10 years to the HCC and Digital Archiving Lab! Originally opened as the ...
Virginia Archives Month 2024
Archives are RAD!!!!! And that’s why we celebrate them for a whole month in Virginia. Archives are for everyone and we encourage you to come hang out with us on...
2023 Virginia Archives Month
To highlight the power and opportunity in the DIY efforts of both archivists and archives users, this year’s Virginia Archives Month theme is Community Made: Zi...
Black History at UMW: James Farmer Collections
It’s no surprise that Civil Rights leader and icon James Farmer has placed his stamp on UMW history. His bust has stood outside of what is now James Farme...