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'''Text:''' Send your question to library@vbgov.com. We'll reply Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | '''Text:''' Send your question to library@vbgov.com. We'll reply Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. | ||
'''Website:''' https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/libraries/Pages/home.aspx | '''Website:''' [https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/libraries/Pages/home.aspx https://www.vbgov.com/libraries] | ||
'''Address:''' Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library, 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA 23452 | '''Address:''' Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library, 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA 23452 | ||
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'''Archives:''' Our archives are located at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library. Many archival items are available as digital copies, or as microfilm available at the Central Library. Customers needing access to the original documents may make an appointment to view the archival items. Call (757) 385-0150 in advance to set up an appointment. | '''Archives:''' Our archives are located at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library. Many archival items are available as digital copies, or as microfilm available at the Central Library. Customers needing access to the original documents may make an appointment to view the archival items. Call (757) 385-0150 in advance to set up an appointment. | ||
'''Other:''' We have free access to databases including digital copies of the Virginian-Pilot newspaper from 1865-1965. We are also a FamilySearch affiliate library with full access to their online holdings and we have free access to Ancestry (Library Edition) and HeritageQuest. | |||
==Services== | ==Services== | ||
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'''Programs:''' Our Moonlight Madness events will help you "Climb Your Family Tree in the Dark" with Virginia Beach Public Library staff and volunteers from the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society and the Lynnhaven Parish Chapter of NSDAR. You will spend the evening in the Central Library conducting genealogy research and taking classes. Call the library at (757) 385-0150 for more information or search the online calendar for class schedules. Classes are offered once a year, on a Saturday evening, from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. | '''Programs:''' Our Moonlight Madness events will help you "Climb Your Family Tree in the Dark" with Virginia Beach Public Library staff and volunteers from the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society and the Lynnhaven Parish Chapter of NSDAR. You will spend the evening in the Central Library conducting genealogy research and taking classes. Call the library at (757) 385-0150 for more information or search the online calendar for class schedules. Classes are offered once a year, on a Saturday evening, from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. | ||
'''Tours and Classes:''' Enroll in a one-hour orientation tour of the Central Library Local History and Genealogy area. These tours are offered regularly by the Virginia Beach Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library staff. Each tour provides insight into the library's collection of family history materials and includes basic research techniques and sources. Call the Library at (757) 385-0150 or search the online calendar for class or tour schedules. Other programs | '''Tours and Classes:''' Enroll in a one-hour orientation tour of the Central Library Local History and Genealogy area. These tours are offered regularly by the Virginia Beach Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library staff. Each tour provides insight into the library's collection of family history materials and includes basic research techniques and sources. Call the Library at (757) 385-0150 or search the online calendar for class or tour schedules. Other programs presented at Central and branch library locations include: African-American Genealogy, Genealogy Boot Camp, Organizing Your Genealogy Project, Using Newspapers and Periodicals, Hispanic Genealogy, and Tips and Tricks for Using Ancestry, Heritage Quest, and FamilySearch. | ||
'''Help Us:''' Do you have photographs, playbills, fliers, posters, postcards, funeral bulletins, school collections and papers of local interest? Don’t toss them away! The Virginia Beach’s Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library staff is hard at work digitizing both the collections we already own, and items lent to us by local collectors. Check out the Library's Digital Archives and Digital Books collection to see what we have already posted.If you have items you would like to donate (they are tax deductible) or a precious item you are willing to loan for digitization, please contact | '''Help Us:''' Do you have photographs, playbills, fliers, posters, postcards, funeral bulletins, school collections and papers of local interest? Don’t toss them away! The Virginia Beach’s Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library staff is hard at work digitizing both the collections we already own, and items lent to us by local collectors. Check out the Library's Digital Archives and Digital Books collection to see what we have already posted.If you have items you would like to donate (they are tax deductible) or a precious item you are willing to loan for digitization, please contact the Special Collections Librarian at (757) 385-0122. | ||
[[Category:FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries]] | [[Category:FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries]] | ||
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