VCU Libraries: Inside The Collection

Find It VCU Menorah Review is an electronic journal that provides information on the Judaic culture. Issues are published biannually with winter/spring and summer/fall issues. Browse the archives and look up issues from fall 2003 to the present. The search option matches various words or phrases with articles. VCU Menorah Review allows users to access scholarly articles […]

Find It The newest addition to VCU Libraries’ digital collections featuring architectural elements of the American South is a catalog of doors, windows, mantels and sashes for 1880s buildings. Thomas E. Stagg was a 19th century Richmond, Va. firm and manufacturer of sashes, blinds and doors for the construction of homes and businesses. Operations were […]

Find It The bible for students, the new VCU Bulletin is available in an updated website. The undergraduate, graduate and professional bulletins contain information about university policies, course descriptions and academic requirements for the programs available to the respective student populations. Visit bulletin.vcu.edu to view the 2015-16 edition on its new site. One of the tabs […]

Find It Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia provides users with access to a historic records about Virginia. Information is taken from various libraries, museums and universities all around Virginia. Users can look through some of the 12,000-plus materials that Virginia has to offer using the browse option or go through […]

Find It VCU Libraries announces the next stage in telling an important and little-known story of the once-vibrant Historic Fulton community that fell victim to 1970s urban renewal. The Historic Fulton Oral History Project is now digital. Transcripts are searchable. Audio files that literally give these accounts voices are also available. “We are very excited […]

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 […]

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 […]

Look, learn and create: The Art Browsery, a dedicated book display on the fourth floor, James Branch Cabell Library, offers new, beautiful books that can inform your creativity. “When you are caught up in the creative process of making art, sometimes you need to take a break and find added inspiration,” says Carla-Mae Crookendale, VCU Libraries’ […]

Find It As the capital of the Confederacy, national and international attention were focused on Richmond, Va., throughout the mid-19th century. In a period when photography was still a new medium, news magazines relied on drawings and paintings for visual coverage of these scenes and events. The Richmond Nineteenth-Century Print Collection includes more than 140 […]

Find It VCU has a long history of student publications, many of which are available through VCU Libraries. Now you can access the full archives of Poictesme, a student literary journal, through VCU Libraries’ digital collections. Poictesme publishes undergraduate students’ prose, poetry and artwork once a year. The journal was started in 1980 by the […]