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JML opens a grant-funded Memory & Oral History Lab with equipment for the digitization of analog files, photos, audio and video recordings. The Library also launches a new integrated library catalog with unified search of its print and digital holdings.
JML Executive Director Deborah Smith was a guest on WLNI's Best of the Burg. During the Partnering for Good segment she shared updates about services, our inclusion on the Virginia Top 10 Endangered Artifacts list, and the launch of our Memory Lab in February 2026.
Jones Memorial Library is honored to be included in the Virginia Association of Museums Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program for 2026. This honor marks the second time JML has been selected as a Top 10 finalist. To learn more about our rare book and vote to support conservation, please visit https://www.vamuseums.org/vote-for-vas-top-10-endangered-artifacts
Jones Memorial Library announces the publication of a significant new dataset with Enslaved.org and the Journal of Slavery & Data Preservation. The dataset for the former Colerain and Tweedside plantations on the Savannah River is available at http://doi.org/10.14321/jsdp.6.3.0161
Jones Memorial Library has been awarded a 2025 Judith F. Krug Banned Books Week grant by the Freedom to Read Foundation. JML will mount a months-long exhibition on the history of book banning in Virginia, to open on October 7.
Jones Memorial Library receives significant funding to launch a Memory Lab and preserve oral histories of residents in Amherst County, Lynchburg, and surrounding counties.
A History of Lynchburg's Libraries in Black and White
Jones Memorial Library announces the digitization of more than 2,500 pages related to Patrick Henry's Red Hill from the Stanhope S. Johnson Office Records collection.
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