Category: General Collections News

Posted December 12, 2024

Did you know that staff, faculty, and doctoral students can have library books delivered directly to their campus mailbox? This service includes books and other items from JMU Libraries or Interlibrary Loan (ILL)! For JMU Libraries books: Enter your work address […]

Posted December 10, 2024

Textbook costs are a serious issue for many JMU students. According to a Spring 2024 survey, 39% of JMU students chose not to enroll in a class due to the cost of textbooks and 30% of students said they take fewer […]

Posted December 9, 2024

In 2024, JMU Libraries acquired or expanded 18 major online resources to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. These resources span various subjects and provide business cases, ancient texts, streaming videos, research publications, and more. Several of these new offerings […]

Posted December 9, 2024

JMU Libraries is committed to providing quality scholarly resources that meet your curricular and research needs. We strive to develop and maintain balanced collections that support the subjects taught at JMU.   How do we decide what to purchase? When deciding […]

Posted December 6, 2024

It’s almost the end of the semester! As you wrap up fall, reflect, and start preparing for spring, remember that even though Carrier is under construction, we are here to support your research and teaching. Here are 6 things we’re eager […]

Posted December 5, 2024

Our Course Reserves service allows you to make it easier for multiple students to access high-demand library materials by limiting checkout times to 4 hours or 4 days. How do I limit checkout times? Please use this form to place materials on Course Reserve, […]

Posted December 5, 2024

Explore 65 magazines online with Flipster—no subscriptions, physical copies, or recycling needed! Read entire magazines cover to cover, including images, ads, comics, and even crosswords. You can flip through or search for something specific.  To share content with others, you […]

Posted November 22, 2024

If you like browsing books on a physical shelf so you can see titles on a similar topic grouped together, we’d like to draw your attention to a tool in our JMU Library Catalog that might be easy to miss. At […]

Posted October 21, 2024

In 2022, the JMU community gained access to over 2,000 ebooks published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Press when JMU Libraries joined the Direct to Open (D2O) project. Since then, the JMU community has gained access to more […]

Posted August 24, 2024

If you thought you needed to be on campus to access physical items in the JMU Libraries collection, we have good news! You can request scanned/digital copies of articles and book chapters to be sent to you via email!  How […]