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Feature Friday: Meet Our Graduate Student Assistant (Miracle Ogbor)

Posted March 19, 2021

When you ask the library a question using our online chat service, you may be lucky enough to meet Miracle Ogbor, a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in Vocal Performance, Pedagogy and Literature at James Madison University. When she […]

Feature Friday: JMU Community Seed Library

Posted March 13, 2021

(All photos pre-COVID.) In February 2020, over 100 people packed into the lobby of Carrier Library for the grand opening of JMU’s Community Seed Library, organized by JMU Libraries. A few weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic sent many of us […]

Feature Friday: Meet Our Peer Research Advisers (Ashley, Josey and Olivia)

Posted March 5, 2021

Peer Research Advisers (PRAs) are student employees in JMU Libraries who are trained to help their peers in the College of Business with the rigorous research required to create a business plan for COB 300 and other assignments. In this […]

Feature Friday: Founder of Black poetry center donates collection to JMU Libraries (Dr. Joanne Gabbin)

Posted February 26, 2021

Two years before Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman made history with her performances at the 2021 presidential inauguration and Super Bowl, she took the stage at James Madison University as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Furious Flower […]

Feature Friday: JMU’s Black Comic Book Collection (Brian Flota)

Posted February 12, 2021

In 2015 and 2016, Brian Flota of JMU Libraries donated over 10,000 comic books to JMU. These are housed in Special Collections–the arm of the Libraries that restores and handles the most rare, fragile, and valuable items. Since then, Flota […]

Feature Friday: Celebrating Simms and Black History in Harrisonburg

Posted February 5, 2021

The Lucy F. Simms School was once a pillar of the Black community in Harrisonburg, Virginia. From 1939-1966, the Lucy. F. Simms School was a thriving public school for Black children in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. While its closure during desegregation […]

Feature Friday: ILL Will Soon Be Even Faster (Mikki Butcher)

Posted December 11, 2020

JMU’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is about to get even faster, and Mikki Butcher (’20) is the person you can thank. You may be familiar with Interlibrary Loan – when you need a book, article, or another resource that’s not part […]

Feature Friday: Preserving the Stories of Displaced Virginians (Kevin Borg)

Posted December 4, 2020

Before Shenandoah National Park was founded, these lands were home for generations of Virginians. Some families lived on the same land for 250 years.  In the 1930s, over 2,000 people in eight counties in Virginia were removed from the land […]

Feature Friday: Meet Yasmeen Shorish

Posted November 20, 2020

With this week’s feature, we’re shining the spotlight on Yasmeen Shorish, who is working hard to protect our privacy, promote open access to information, and help us consider publishing rights. Through dual roles, Yasmeen helps to promote equity and inclusion […]

Feature Friday: An Online Teaching Success Story (Kristen Shrewsbury)

Posted November 13, 2020

In March of this year, JMU faculty were faced with an unimaginable task. They needed to move all their courses online in a week and a half so that students could leave campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty […]