American Shakespeare Center Archive Project The James G. Leyburn Library at Washington and Lee University has a Special Collections and Archives division that houses materials belonging to the American Shakespeare Center (ASC). The collection “includes 65 Shakespeare plays, additional plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Molière; 12 Beta videotapes and audiocassettes; 26 cast…
Academic Library Visit
Betty Sue Jessup Library at PVCC The Betty Sue Jessup Library serves staff, professors, and students of the Piedmont Virginia Community College campus in Charlottesville, Virginia. It has a strong digital presence through PVCC’s student services website. Online users can chat with a librarian 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The library’s homepage…
School Library Visit
Johnson Elementary School Library The library at Johnson Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia serves about 300 pre-schoolers through fourth graders. It provides books in circulation, maker spaces and tools, access to digital media and literacy programs; it houses afterschool programs and gives students, teachers, and staff access to academic resources outside of the school. The…
Public Library Visit
Gordon Avenue Library The Gordon Avenue Branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library system is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The neighborhood includes university student housing, fraternity and sorority houses, a nursing home, and two elementary schools. It’s also rapidly gentrifying—what used to be a historically Black neighborhood that served the staff of the University of Virginia…