Category: Feature Friday

Posted October 19, 2024

In celebration of International Open Access Week (October 21-27), we interviewed JMU faculty member Ben Selznick, an associate professor in the School of Strategic Leadership Studies who has published 5 articles in open access journals.  Keep reading to find out […]

Posted September 19, 2024

For the last nine years, JMU faculty member Mollie Godfrey and former faculty member Seán McCarthy have been working alongside local Harrisonburg community members and students on a project to recover the histories of a local Black teacher–Lucy F. Simms–and […]

Posted September 12, 2024

JMU faculty, staff, and students, if you are trying to figure out how to manage your research data, we’d like to introduce you to someone.  Meet your new data services librarian! Samantha Harmon (M ‘22) joined the team in JMU […]

Posted August 27, 2024

You probably know The Makery—the makerspace in Rose Library that offers workshops and multimedia software and equipment to JMU students, faculty, and staff. Maybe you’ve attended a workshop or stopped by to use the sewing machines, laser cutters, electronics workbench, […]

Posted March 1, 2024

In 2023, Dr. Taimi Castle decided to start a podcast. “As the director of JMU’s Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, I wanted to have another community engagement piece that was accessible beyond JMU faculty and staff,” Taimi recalls. “We listen […]

Posted October 31, 2023

The Makery in Rose Library recently helped to bridge the gap between the past and the future of Carrier Library using the power of 3D scanning and printing technology. While preparing for the renovation of Carrier Library, the construction team […]

Posted October 24, 2023

Do you know that feeling you get when you find something you didn’t even realize was lost? It’s that mix of gratitude and delight with a dash of surprise. That’s the feeling we had in the Libraries when we uncovered the […]

Posted October 12, 2023

When Bill Ritchie, CSX professor of Business Management in JMU’s College of Business, went looking for a partner to help him demonstrate to students in a supply-chain class how 3D scanning and printing can provide a margin of safety against […]

Posted September 13, 2023

What does it mean for JMU that all students, faculty, and staff can use cutting-edge technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and 3D scanners in The Makery, a makerspace in the Libraries? For Industrial Design major Quinn Gagne, it meant […]

Posted September 8, 2023

Meet our newest librarians: Liana Bayne-Lin and Kathryn Eckler recently joined our team as liaison librarians to College of Science & Mathematics students, faculty, and staff. JMU’s liaison librarians are experts at finding, using, and sharing information relevant to their […]