Category: Feature Friday
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 […]
Feature Friday: Meet Carolyn Schubert
Posted November 6, 2020
Carolyn joined JMU Libraries in 2011. She became Interim Director of Research & Education Services in 2017, and in 2020 this role became permanent. As Director of Research & Education Services, Carolyn leads our team of liaison librarians to each […]
Feature Friday: Racial Terror (Gianluca De Fazio)
Posted October 30, 2020
Professor Gianluca De Fazio (Justice Studies) has worked with JMU Libraries since 2017 to build a digital history project on lynching in Virginia – Racial Terror: Lynchings in Virginia. The resulting website acts as an essential, ongoing database of lynchings […]