Announcements

  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 finding aids. Adding a new...

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 winner is Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS). Thank you...

Date: September 2, 2021 Time: 11 am Details: Kira Dietz (Assistant Director, Special Collections and University Archives) and Corinne Guimont (Digital Scholarship Coordinator) at Virginia Tech, will talk about how they collaborate when it comes to archives and digital scholarship. We'll share projects, training, and tools, at many levels, whether you're new to digital scholarship, a veteran, or just curious...

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. Lesley Parilla (Mt. Vernon) and...

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 your chance to follow up....

Date: March 4, 2021 Time: 11 am Details: Kira Dietz, Tech Team Chair, will be discussing Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and the DACS-compliant EAD form she created to assist members in generating finding aids for Virginia Heritage. Please register for the meeting using this form. Once completed, please copy the Zoom link in the confirmation to your calendar....

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 was taken offline due to...

Date: February 4, 2021Time: 11 amSession title: Excelerating Finding Aids in Virginia Heritage and ArchivesSpace Presenter: Steven Bookman, Old Dominion UniversityDescription: The presentation will cover a new process to import finding aids into Virginia Heritage and ArchivesSpace using the same spreadsheet. It will also show how each finding aid is displayed in both Virginia Heritage and ArchivesSpace. Steve has developed this process for use at ODU once...

The Governance Team of Virginia Heritage invites members to join us for the first of a regular series of sessions on topics related to Virginia Heritage. The goal is to come together for discussions and presentations that will be useful to our members. These sessions will be held on the first Thursday of the month at 11:00 am. While we...

The Governance Team for Virginia Heritage would like to update you on recent events within our community. We have been consistently expanding our membership over the years and have successfully worked with the University of Virginia Library to stabilize the VH infrastructure. Building on that solid foundation, we have recently begun the process to integrate some key stakeholders from West...