Category: Giving to JMU Libraries News

Posted April 4, 2022

Our partnership with the JMU History Department and Rockingham County Circuit Court to digitize thousands of courthouse records was covered by the Daily News Record, WHSV-TV3, NBC29, and The Harrisonburg Citizen.  Learn more about the Histories Along the Blue Ridge […]

Posted February 21, 2022

It’s JMU Giving Day! If you are still deciding where to make your gift, consider JMU Libraries. Your gift can help fund scholarships for Libraries student employees like Sean and Selena:   Sean’s work on our Media Production Services team not only […]

Posted February 18, 2022

As a JMU Libraries student employee, Selena St. Andre (‘18) found her passion between the pages of old JMU scrapbooks and handwritten farm ledgers from Shenandoah Valley farmers in the early 1900s. Previously, she planned to use her history degree […]

Posted February 4, 2022

As a JMU student, Sean Khuon-Paige (‘19) helped faculty to make videos as part of the Media Production Services (MPS) team in JMU Libraries. Now a freelance videographer in Portland, Oregon, he has worked on video projects for Netflix, Nike, […]

Posted January 28, 2022

For History alumna Kayla Heslin (‘20M), working on her master’s thesis was not just an opportunity for hands-on archival work that eventually helped her to land a position as Digital Collections Coordinator at University of Pittsburgh. It was also an […]

Posted January 4, 2022

Posted November 18, 2021

James Madison University Special Collections is pleased to announce that the Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers is now fully processed and available for research. The Newman Family Papers document George Ambrose Newman (1855-1944), Black educator and […]

Posted October 8, 2021

Brian Charette is a familiar face to many at JMU, and he is no stranger to the Libraries! He has worn many “hats” at JMU – instructor, consultant, director, AVP, and his current role as Special Assistant to the President […]

Posted September 24, 2021

“I have studied block-printed texts for years as a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism…but I had never crafted my own printing blocks before,” says Dr. Christie Kilby, Assistant Professor of Religion at James Madison University (JMU). In Spring 2021, Dr. Kilby […]

Posted April 16, 2021

Join us for a virtual launch on April 28, 2021, to celebrate Season 2 of a podcast featuring the stories of immigrants in the Shenandoah Valley: Harrisonburg 360: Real People. Real Stories. One Community.  JMU students in Dr. Allison Fagan’s […]