Poe’s name in @UVA’s list of library fines for 1826 @RareUVA
In the background, the book Poe returned late: 4th vol of Rollin’s Oeuvres Complètes (1807).
Poe paid 58 of the 60 cents due. In the early 20th c, students from Virginia Intermont College paid the remaining 2 cents.
You can now watch a recording of my brilliant friends @NealDCurtis and @MadelineZehnder and I sharing our work on @RotundaLibrary and #RotundaPlanetarium with the UVA club of New York! https://t.co/7OpTI8vYVZ
Got plans this weekend? Don't forget your RBS summer 2021 application! We have new courses on our schedule, check it out below—application deadline is March 8th.
https://t.co/C1TkYHun7v
There's still time to apply for summer courses! The deadline to submit is 12 p.m., ET, tonight. Also, please note that H-20a is a 22-hour course. Check it out below and take a look at the other courses on our webpage as well.
https://t.co/91xs2bXjc8
RBS has online-only options and good COVID-19 contingency plans for the in-person classes (they'll either move online or be canceled before you pay tuition deposit).
Year-in review highlights: The Rotunda Planetarium. Using Thomas Jefferson’s notes, found in Special Collections, @MadelineZehnder, @NealDCurtis, & @samuellemley realized his vision of a planetarium with constellations projected on the Rotunda dome.
https://t.co/VP5F3gUWEj
We’ve been posting highlights from FY2020 Annual Report—a strange year that went through a “normal” semester & then turned upside down with COVID. Check them out below, & follow the blog to view more as we post (& to keep up with us in general):
https://t.co/LXmcRbJRBk
Gayle’s depth of knowledge and patient regard for detail and accuracy are legendary. She’s led me and the @RotundaLibrary team out of many research labyrinths over the years.
This corner of my office is exactly 1 Hinman Collators deep. Excited to put @CMULibraries newest ancestral machine, here appropriately clad in PPE, to use. #newacq
ICYMI: Black Print Culture, an RBS Online Panel Discussion is now available for viewing here: https://t.co/QqyMsIlfh1. Follow the conversation @ #RBSOnline and #RBSBlackPrintCulture.
“As libraries go digital, paper books still have a lot to offer us” @ConversationUS on the importance of physical materials features the effort to preserve the UVA Library card catalog. @rotundalibrary 📚 📚 📚 https://t.co/UAXU1u64Rd
Though the Small Library remains closed, over the next 5 weeks we’ll highlight our current exhibit "Sisterhood: Cultural Portraits of African-American Women to feature stories and faces of anonymous & notable women as powerful evidence of praiseworthy lives. #sisterhoodexhibition
Astronomy, race, and the unwitnessed radiance inside history's blind spots — a poetic instrument for observing and redrawing the spectrum of privilege and possibility https://t.co/1lliQaRDzY
In case you missed it, "Self Preservation" a #Juneteenth conversation about Black historic preservation in Virginia, is available here: https://t.co/p6iEgKnxJT Thank you to our panelists @DeloresMcquinn@clnfairfax and @UndeNIYAble.
Antonin Mercié/Adalbert Volk, Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1890. Projection by Dustin Klein; photo by Alexis Delilah; spray paint improvement by the public, 2020.