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\"Construction\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Special Collections & Archives will be temporarily closed for renovations and facilities improvements starting July 23rd until we reopen at the beginning of September. <\/b>During that time, we will not have physical access to our collections. We will respond to your inquiries, but will not be able to access collections to make any copies or answer questions that require us to search through books or archives and manuscripts.<\/p>\n

We apologize for the inconvenience. For more information, please see http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/m982hrt<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special Collections & Archives will be temporarily closed for renovations and facilities improvements starting July 23rd until we reopen at the beginning of September. During that time, we will not have physical access to our collections. We will respond to your inquiries, but will not be able to access collections to make any copies or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-1ko","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7979,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=7979","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":0},"title":"Archives Information Session","author":"admin","date":"September 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Special Collections will be having an information session in the Fenwick Library Atrium on Thursday, September 27 from 1-4 p.m. to talk about Virginia's Archives Month, the REMIX contest, and provide general information about our collections and how we can help students. 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