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De-Stress for Success Fall 2019
Dec 04, 2019
Virginia Research Library Deans and Directors Endorse the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
Oct 23, 2019
JMU Experts Advance Open Access Initiatives in Library & Information Science
Oct 22, 2019
Open Access Week events
Oct 11, 2019
Universal Design for Learning - a free online conference on 10/18
Oct 11, 2019
Get to Know Your Liaison Librarian
Oct 07, 2019
JMU Libraries' Employment Opportunities
Sep 30, 2019
A Note from Our New Dean
Sep 11, 2019
Lee Vinsel to keynote the Teaching & Learning with Technology Conference on 10/28
Sep 10, 2019
MadLab workshops for students
Sep 06, 2019
CANCELED: Towards Building Community Based Archives of Activism
Sep 05, 2019
Carrier Library offers the 3SPACE Classroom
Sep 05, 2019
Classroom Technology Upgrades across campus
Sep 02, 2019
Accelerating Creative Teaching Grants for JMU Faculty
Sep 02, 2019
Music Library Receives Summer Renovations
Aug 30, 2019
Carrier & Rose closed on Aug. 15 & 16
Aug 12, 2019
Special Collections closed August 12-16
Aug 08, 2019
Books by and about Toni Morrison
Aug 06, 2019
Lynda.com changing to LinkedIn Learning on Aug. 6
Aug 05, 2019
JMU Libraries Faculty Member Chairs ACRL Committee to “Create a More Inclusive Future”
Jul 11, 2019
Local History Celebrated in Libraries Collaborations this Spring
May 22, 2019
JMU Libraries Collaboration Project “Exploring Rockingham's Past” Recipient of 2019 TechNite Innovation in Community Impact Award
May 22, 2019
De-Stress for Success Spring 2019
Apr 25, 2019
Finals Week Study Room Giveaway!
Apr 18, 2019
Explore Prohibition in Rockingham County
Apr 17, 2019
Bicycling in the Shenandoah Valley & the Rise of the SVBC
Apr 11, 2019
Statement from Deans and Directors of Virginia Research Libraries on the University of California System’s Termination of Contract with Elsevier
Apr 10, 2019
JMU Integrative Design Technology Fellowship
Mar 26, 2019
STS Futures Lab Receives Grant with Libraries Support
Mar 26, 2019
JMU Libraries Faculty Member Awarded VIVA Course Redesign Grant
Mar 15, 2019
Learn More about Disability Studies!
Mar 11, 2019
Fair Use Week at JMU Libraries
Feb 25, 2019
Next Dean of Libraries Announced
Feb 20, 2019
Special Collections Speaker Series: Postcards from Afghanistan
Feb 18, 2019
Share your passion with lawmakers – send them a valentine
Feb 14, 2019
JMU Libraries-supported project recognized by press
Feb 06, 2019
Color Our Collections – images from 95 years ago
Jan 30, 2019
Apply for a Course Redesign Grant and transition to affordable and open course materials
Dec 11, 2018
Movie Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Nov 27, 2018
Comic Books, Analysis, and Digital Scholarship
Nov 05, 2018
I Married a Park Ranger and Became a Park Wife
Oct 25, 2018
Making Information Literacy a Habit
Oct 24, 2018
October is Health Literacy Month!
Oct 16, 2018
Black Secret Technologies and Remaking of the Future
Oct 08, 2018
A New Toolkit for a New Information Landscape
Sep 26, 2018
Two JMU Library Employees Receive Grant to Explore Open Access Collections in Libraries.
Sep 19, 2018
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Sep 05, 2018
Rose Library Celebrates 10 Years!
Sep 05, 2018
New Online Access to Wall Street Journal
Sep 05, 2018
New for you at the Libraries this fall
Aug 21, 2018
JMU Libraries Redesigns Its Website
Aug 01, 2018
GDPR Goes Live on May 25
May 30, 2018
New Incentives & Programs Coming for Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Apr 30, 2018
New digital project/resource on lynchings between 1877 & 1927 in Virginia
Apr 11, 2018
Two documentary screenings and Q&As with filmmakers on March 13
Mar 08, 2018
Movies for Black History Month
Feb 28, 2018
Share your passion with lawmakers – send them a valentine
Feb 09, 2018
Color Our Collections
Feb 07, 2018
High Five! ACT Grant Award Winners
Feb 01, 2018
"Madison Magazine" and "Montpelier” now available online
Feb 01, 2018
Students use VR to get deeper understanding of history
Jan 11, 2018
New International Week Photos Grace our Libraries
Dec 07, 2017
De-Stress for Success Begins this Week!
Dec 07, 2017
High Five! TLT Award Winners
Nov 06, 2017
Words have Power. Read a Banned Book
Sep 29, 2017
We the People…Would like more information!
Sep 21, 2017
Get hands-on with Technology by competing in Maker Sprints!
Sep 19, 2017
New Collection Available in JMU Scholarly Commons
Sep 18, 2017
Constitution Week at the Libraries
Sep 15, 2017
High Five!: Building a 3D Printer
Sep 08, 2017
7 things you didn't know you could do at JMU Libraries
Aug 30, 2017
Messages of Support for Charlottesville
Aug 29, 2017
Collection of Joseph Funk Letters Now in Special Collections
Aug 07, 2017
High Five! Title IX Camtasia Training
Jul 31, 2017
Madison Fellowship for Digital Teaching and Learning
Jul 31, 2017
JMU Supports the Library Bill of Rights
Jun 19, 2017
The Heatwole Family Papers Acquired by Special Collections
Jun 19, 2017
Beyond Books: Preparing Student Employees for the Future at JMU Libraries & Educational Technologies
Apr 14, 2017
Happy Student Employee Appreciation Week!
Apr 05, 2017
Exploring affordable course content and OER @ JMU
Mar 31, 2017
Make music at an event in Rose Library! Fri 3/31
Mar 31, 2017
OER Week - Exploring Open Educational Resources
Mar 30, 2017
OER Week - Exploring Open Access Books
Mar 29, 2017
OER Week - Exploring Open Textbooks
Mar 28, 2017
#YouAreWelcomeHere
Mar 27, 2017
OER Week - Open Education Defined
Mar 27, 2017
Expanding Access and Inclusion by Combating the Rising Cost of Textbooks
Mar 20, 2017
Envisioning Change: Activism in Art
Feb 23, 2017
Love Your Data Week - Day Five
Feb 17, 2017
Love Your Data Week - Day Four
Feb 16, 2017
Love Your Data Week - Day Three
Feb 15, 2017
Love Your Data Week - Day Two
Feb 14, 2017
Love Your Data Week - Day One
Feb 13, 2017
#ColorOurCollections
Feb 08, 2017
JMU Libraries and Educational Technologies endorses JMU Faculty Senate Resolution on Faculty Value Commitments
Jan 20, 2017
Coloring, book swap, chocolate meditation, and more: De-Stress for Success
Dec 01, 2016
Statement on JMU Libraries as Safe Spaces
Nov 17, 2016
STEM and Society: Public Roles of Scientists and Engineers
Nov 02, 2016
Please Don't Vanish Without a Trace
Oct 26, 2016
Building Archives, Celebrating Local History: The Lucy Simms Project
Oct 25, 2016
Learn more about new Nobel laureate Bob Dylan in JMU Libraries
Oct 13, 2016
Fall Frolic with Therapy Dogs - Oct 15
Oct 12, 2016
REMIX | Art from the Archives Contest
Sep 30, 2016
Pulp Studies Symposium – Oct 7-8
Sep 27, 2016
Why celebrate Banned Books Week?
Sep 25, 2016
Thursday 9/22 - The Civic Arena: Media in the Ring
Sep 22, 2016
Carrier Library Grand Re-Opening 9/23
Sep 19, 2016
Researching and Writing "Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal”
Sep 13, 2016
Music Library Opens Stacks
Sep 12, 2016
New JMU library check-out policies
Aug 29, 2016
7 Things You Need to Know about JMU Libraries this Fall
Aug 26, 2016
The front is back! Carrier Library's historic entrance now open
Aug 22, 2016
The Fixer: JMU's Underground Student Newspaper
May 18, 2016
Dogs, Yoga & More: De-Stress for Success
Apr 28, 2016
Unlimited possibilities @ your library: celebrate National Library Week April 12-18
Apr 13, 2015