CCRP Grant Review Board Sets a New Record with Preservation Funding

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board awarded 115 grants totaling $4,722,256 to 101 localities at its meeting last month, breaking previous records for number of awards, locality participation, and total amounts granted. Clerks of the circuit courts are eligible to apply for funds to conserve, secure, and increase access to circuit court records. The majority of the approved applications covered professional conservation treatment for almost 730 records including deed books, will books, land tax books, marriage licenses, minute books, and plat books housed in circuit court clerks’ offices that have suffered damage from use, age, pests, water, cellulose acetate lamination, or previous nonprofessional repairs. The remaining grants funded records reformatting, back-indexing, storage, and environmental control equipment. The Library of Virginia’s Government Records Division administers the CCRP

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2022 Weinstein Author Series Begins February 24 with Living Queer History

The 2022 Carole Weinstein Author Series kicks off Thursday, February 24, at 6:00 PM with a talk by history professor and author Dr. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal on their book Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia.

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This in-person event will also be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. Visit www.facebook.com/LibraryofVA or www.youtube.com/user/LibraryofVA at the time of the event. Free and open to the public, the Carole Weinstein Author Series supports the literary arts by bringing both new and well-known authors to the Library of Virginia. The full 2022 author lineup will be announced soon!

Left to right: L. Preston Bryant Jr., Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy, and Suzette Denslow.

Governor Northam Announces

Library of Virginia Board Appointments

Governor Ralph Northam recently announced new appointments to the Library Board. L. Preston Bryant Jr., of Richmond, and Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy, of Palmyra, have been reappointed to additional terms on the board. The governor has also appointed one new member, Suzette Denslow, of Richmond, to her first term on the board. Denslow recently served as the Clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates, the first woman ever elected to that position. Prior to that appointment, she served as deputy chief of staff, Office of the Governor (January 2014–January 2020). We are delighted to welcome them.

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January “Book Break” Offers a Humorous Look at Poe

Bolster your New Year’s resolutions and celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday as author Catherine Baab-Muguira leads a discussion of uncommon advice inspired by the works and life of Poe in the form of her darkly inspiring self-help book, Poe for Your Problems, at the Library on Wednesday, January 19 at 12:00 PM. Poe might be the least likely person you'd ever turn to for advice: he married his cousin, got fired from one job after another, constantly feuded with friends and rivals, and he was always broke. But that’s also precisely the point. Though Poe failed again and again, he also persevered.

Presented through a partnership between the Virginia Shop and James River Writers, the Book Break series offers the opportunity to connect book lovers to new titles and local authors.

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