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2. The Hornbook of Virginia History - Wikipedia

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   The Library of Virginia has described the Hornbook as the "definitive, handy reference guide to Virginia's history and culture." The first edition of the book was published in 1949 by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, Division of History and Archaeology, with subsequent editions in 1965, 1983, and 1994.

3. Library of Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building.

4. Z-Library - Wikipedia

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   Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.

5. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [ 2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [ 3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...

6. Alexandria Library (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   In 1897, a group of women in Alexandria formed the Alexandria Library Association. The leaders of the group were Virginia Corse, Mrs. William B. Smoot, and Virginia Burke. They petitioned the school board to open a subscription library in Peabody Hall, using the old books stored there. Permission was given and doors to the new subscription ...

7. Virtual Library of Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia.Members include all of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (the six doctoral degree-granting universities, nine four-year institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges), as well as 34 of the independent (private, nonprofit) institutions and ...

8. Richmond Public Library (United States) - Wikipedia

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   After the City of Richmond's finance committee rejected the first Carnegie offer in 1901, Carnegie offered to donate $100,000 to the city of Richmond, Virginia, for a public library. The city council had to furnish a site for the building and guarantee that $10,000 in municipal funds would be budgeted for the library each year.

9. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library - Wikipedia

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   The Library in 2013. Two further stories of public space and stacks are underground. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia is a research library that specializes in American history and literature, history of Virginia and the southeastern United States, the history of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, and the history and arts of the ...