VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Find It Newly available from Special Collections and Archives are nine oral histories about VCU students in the Civil Rights movement. Video files of the interview are available online. The Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC) was a short-lived, integrated civil rights organization, whose membership included students from colleges across Virginia. In 2015 and 2016, nine members of the […]

The Social Welfare History Project continues to serve the public as both an educational resource and a portal for reference questions related to the site’s materials.  More than 1.5 million visits to the project were recorded, most of which occurred during the school year. Undergraduates, public school students and researchers accessed hundreds of different articles. The […]

Find It Betsy Brinson collection of AIDS epidemic exhibit materials Find It Equality Virginia records Two manuscript collections documenting stories of the LGBTQ community in Richmond are now open and available for research. This work was scheduled in part to strategically align resources in support of VCU’s recent hiring initiative that will support a new Virginia Commonwealth University a minor […]

Find It VCU Libraries has a subscription to Films on Demand Master Academic Collection. Films on Demand’s streaming videos include documentaries from places such as the BBC and PBS as well as instructional videos. The videos are divided into subject sets (such as mathematics, biology, physical sciences), and they can also be found via a […]