Library Development Office - addition

Location of collection:

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

160 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Brenda Gunn

Email: bg9ba@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-1037

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/reference-request

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

RG-12, Library Development files, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:

.6 Cubic Feet 1 letter-sized document box and 1 half letter document box, 1 Cassettes 1 VHS, and .7 Gigabytes 1 CD-R

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

RG-12, Library Development files, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine, Libel Magazine, and UVA Athletic News.

Acquisition information:

This collection was transferred from Sara Lee Barnes in the Library Development Office to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 21 June 2019.

Arrangement:

Series 1. UVA publications about student life, faculty, alumni and athletics; Series 2. UVA Library invitations to events and photographs; Series 3. Wednesdays in Mississippi and Dorothy Height.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Related material:

MSS 12241 also has materials related to Wednesdays in Mississippi.

Other descriptive data:

Appointments must be made in advance to use media formats such as LPs, audiotapes, videotapes, films, CDs, and DVDs held by Special Collections. In most cases, materials must be reformatted before they can be accessed, sometimes at the researcher's expense. Access cannot be guaranteed unless prior arrangements have been made.

Please use our via our online Reference Request form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request, to ask for further information or to schedule access to audio-visual materials. A link to the form can be found under External Documents in this record.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

magazines (periodicals)

Places:

Student life
Athletics