Creativity professor seeks inspiration
Inspiration and creativity are not bound by disciplines. Libraries provide a crossroads for the exchange of ideas and exploration of materials across subject matters. That thinking brought Berwyn Hung, who teaches creativity, and his students to James Branch Cabell Library. “Students are very much in their own bubble,” says Hung. “They need as much outside […]
Stubbins: U.S. municipal buildings postcards
Find It Researchers studying planning, history, architecture and similar subjects that involve built environments now have a new national resource. The Stubbins Collection of U.S. County Courthouse and Municipal Building Postcards has been digitized and is now freely available online. The collection features U.S. county courthouses and other municipal buildings such as town halls and […]
History in Your Hands: A digitized Dickinson letter
Finding aid A 17-word letter from poet Emily Dickinson to a neighbor is now widely available to researchers through a new “History in Your Hands” exhibit in the online VCU Libraries Gallery. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) lived most of her life in the family home in Amherst, Mass. She lived quietly. While often identified as a recluse, Dickinson […]
Flickr Commons: VCU digital special and archival collections
Find It VCU Libraries has been named as the 100th institution to take part in Flickr’s The Commons, an online project that seeks to share hidden treasures from the world’s public photography archives. As part of The Commons, VCU Libraries’ digital special and archival image collections that have no known copyright restrictions will be discoverable […]
Baist Atlas: 19th century digitized map
Find It Researchers and others interested in the history and architecture of Richmond can now explore the city as it was at the end of the 19th century, thanks to a newly digitized map from 1889 that Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries has posted online and made fully interactive. The map is from the “Atlas of […]
Billy DeBeck’s Office Door: Cultural stereotypes of Appalachia
VCU Libraries has an extensive Comic Arts Collection. But it also has a few items that are not in the book or comic book format — like the office door of pioneering cartoonist Billy DeBeck, featuring an oil painting of one of his most beloved characters. William Morgan DeBeck, 1890-1942, was a giant in the […]
