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This collection contains the records from the Learning Resources Center (1971 to at least 1990) at Virginia Tech. The materials in this collection date from 1951 to 1988 and includes film advertisments, guides, magazines, newspaper articles, photo slides, slides scripts, and worksheets. It mainly contains film guides for older educational films that bring awareness to such topics as animal behaviors, environmental safety, relationships, sexual health, scientific concepts/methods, and other more heavier topics.

Consists of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra organizational archives, the Virginia Symphony Board archives, artifacts concerning premieres and other notable performances, and season programs.

Administrative documents of this independent organization of public health nursing directors in the states, territories, and Washington DC. Items include correspondence, reports, minutes, and newsletters, dating in general from 1975 to the formation of a new organization in 2012, the Association of Public Health Nurses. The organization shapes the roles and status of public health nurses.

This collection contains the working and personal papers of Zelda Fichandler. Items include correspondence regarding productions, staff, finances, playwrights and actors as well as personal matters and speeches and remarks given by Zelda.

The manuscript materials consist of personal and business correspondence of Nancy Graham Rogers, including letters from her fiance, Albert C. Johnson. There are also letters Rogers inherited from her mother, Anna, including one from her father to her grandmother asking for Anna's hand in marriage. There are business receipts, correspondence, tax information, and material regarding the estates of relatives for whom Rogers served as executor, including Anne Snowden Wildman Dyer and Christine Wildman. The collection also includes scrapbooks, Nancy's mother's wedding book, and a small diary Rogers kept from 1932 to 1935. An account book marked "Turkeys and Chickens 1915" was used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, and contains clippings and expenses. A journal also used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, contains recipes, family expenses for 1914, and clippings. There are two scrapbooks compiled by Mary Oden Rogers containing clippings and pictures. Some loose material in the scrapbooks was removed and placed in folders. Separation sheets detailing where these materials were placed were put in the scrapbooks.

The collection consists of archeological investigations of properties under consideration as sites for new public school facilities in Loudoun County. One report is a history of desegregation in Loudoun County Public Schools and, in particular, Douglass Elementary School. The reports were commissioned by Loudoun County Public Schools, consultants, or developers.

The Loudoun Restoration and Preservation Society (LRPS) was founded in 1967 to promote the recognition, restoration, and preservation of historical sites and buildings in Loudoun County. LRPS merged with the Preservation Society of Loudoun County in 2008. The collection contains minutes, the charter and by-laws for the society, lists of officers and board members, correspondence, legal and financial documents, as well as materials relating to August Court Days, restoration projects, and the 100th anniversary of celebration of the Leesburg courthouse.