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==Services==
'''Research Assistance''': Find out how you may use library materials on a fair use basis only, in accordance with Title 17, Section 107 of the United States Code. Are you looking for local, state, or national genealogical societies or other organizations?  You'll find them here.  Use VBPL's research databases for your local history and genealogy research. Need help getting started or moving past a road block in your research?  We're available, by appointment, to assist you with your more in-depth research needs.  To make an appointment, please contact the Central Library at (757) 385-0150.

'''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 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 the Special Collections Librarian at (757) 385-0122.
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