OSHER Library Guide: Library Highlights

The Music Library is a resource for all UR students, faculty, and staff; members of the community are also welcome to visit. Our recent renovation created a greatly enlarged study area with many options for seating. We have over 13,000 CDs, 18,000 scores, and 12,000 books about all types of music and dance. Our DVD collection includes operas, musicals, dance performances, concerts, instructional programs, and documentaries. Also available are laptop computers, iPads, a printer, a photocopier, and a scanner.

Located within Boatwright Library, the Galvin Rare Book Room and Special Collections supports the educational mission of the University of Richmond by preserving and providing access to our diverse collection of materials for use by students, faculty, staff, scholars, and the general public. We hope to provide an environment that challenges researchers of all types to engage with historical materials and primary sources while building connections to earlier generations and gain an understanding of the use and care for such materials. Items can be located in the library catalog.

The Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker (August 16, 1929 – January 23, 2018) was a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a prominent minister, theologian of the black religious tradition, and scholar and composer of black gospel music. Dr. Walker was also a developer of affordable housing in New York City and co-founder of the first charter school approved by the State University of New York. Dr. Walker and his wife, Theresa Ann Walker, donated the Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt Tee Walker Collection to the University of Richmond in 2016.

Boatwright Library's Digital Engagement Team creates digital collections of University publications, of archival materials held by the University, and of materials that advance learning and research at and beyond the University. They execute or manage each stage in this process, from digitization of print or analog materials to the creation of transcriptions and metadata, and from the development of digital collections to the long-term preservation of digital materials for future generations.

Items included here reflect the research and scholarly work of the University of Richmond community.