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Library Resource has full Color, Archival Quality scans of Time and Life Magazines, including Ads

By Mitch Farish | Mon, 11/04/2019 - 14:41

New! The Library offers full issues of Time and Life magazine online, cover to cover with all pictures and ads intact. Click “Research” at the top of the Library homepage. Look in the A–Z list of online resources to find the Time Magazine Archive or Life Magazine Archive. At the EBSCO search page, type search terms. All results will be from that publication.

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Documenting and Preserving the Graffiti in Alderman Library’s Study Carrels

By jph9e | Fri, 08/02/2019 - 15:45

Guest post by: Kennedy Castillo (UVA Linguistics MA, 2019), Lise Dobrin (UVA Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Program Director), Liam Donohue (UVA Anthropology and Environmental Science BA, 2019), Grace East (UVA Anthropology PhD Candidate), Edith Kachia (Visiting Fulbright Swahili TA, 2018-19), Jenny Lee (UVA English and American Studies BA, 2019), Dakota Marsh (UVA English BA, 2020), Jacob Nelson (UVA Linguistics BA, 2020), Will Norton (UVA Linguistics BA, 2020)

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Cutaway View of Renovated Main Library Shows Vision for Future

By akl3b | Wed, 11/14/2018 - 14:56

The renovated space includes flexible areas for individual and group study and research throughout the building, as well as new elevators, bathrooms, and stairwells, and all-new mechanical infrastructure.

Cutaway view of the renovated main library — Section perspective from west, looking east towards the Rotunda. HBRA Architects with Clark Nexsen, October 22, 2018.

Basement

Mechanical rooms and building storage will be located on the basement level, as will compact shelving and processing areas for Rare Books School and Library and Flowerdew Hundred closed collections.

Renovation

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Library Resource has full Color, Archival Quality scans of Time and Life Magazines, including Ads

Documenting and Preserving the Graffiti in Alderman Library’s Study Carrels

Cutaway View of Renovated Main Library Shows Vision for Future

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