Announcement – Archival Resources of the Virginias

August 2, 2022August 3, 2022 by Margaret Kidd

Virginia Heritage Renamed Archival Resources of the Virginias

For over twenty years, Virginia Heritage has served as a union database of finding aids for Virginia cultural heritage institutions. Members contributed thousands of finding aids, and membership has grown from the eleven initial contributors to fifty-two. In 2020, Virginia Heritage expanded beyond its borders, inviting West Virginia institutions to join and share their…

New name for Virginia Heritage

During the past two years, West Virginia archival institutions joined Virginia Heritage to broaden resources for researchers from both states. Virginia Heritage as a name has served us well for more than twenty years, but now that West Virginia has joined, it is time for a change. Recently the membership voted on a new name for Virginia Heritage. The…

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April 5, 2021 by Margaret Kidd

May Virginia Heritage Session: Contributing to the DPLA – Member Perspectives

Date: May 6, 2021 Time: 11 am Details: Contributing to the DPLA – Member PerspectivesThe Digital Virginias Service Hub for the Digital Library of America (DPLA) launched in 2019, and in the following year, the Hub brought on its first two additional contributors – George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.…

April Virginia Heritage Session

Date: April 1, 2021 Time: 11 am Details: Join us for this open session. Members of the Governance, Tech, and Outreach teams will be available to answer your VH questions and to provide updates about recent changes to the database. Did you attend a previous session or watch the recordings and have questions? This is…

Server Change + Some New Information!

As many Virginia Heritage members may know, we have been working on making a test server, which incorporates automated harvesting of ArchivesSpace instances to the database, our live site. We’ve still been working on some bugs and improvements for this version. We have also had an on-going security certificate issue. This week, however, Virginia Heritage…

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