Category: JMU Libraries News

Posted February 18, 2019

This lecture by Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is organized around JMU’s recent acquisition of a set of 1920s photograph-postcards from Afghanistan, a country that gained independence from British India in 1919. These postcards circulated globally and are discussed as elements […]

Posted February 14, 2019

This Valentine’s Day, tell your elected representatives about the issues you’re passionate about. We’re making it quick & easy to write to your governor and members of Congress. Stop by Rose or Carrier Library’s lobby, choose a pre-addressed Valentine if […]

Posted February 6, 2019

A featured story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on January 20, 2019, titled “Virginia has a dark history of lynching. Efforts are underway to bring it to light,” mentions an important project created by James Madison University’s Gianluca De Fazio working closely with […]

Posted January 30, 2019

Thousands of books and other works published in the U.S. in 1923 entered the public domain on January 1, 2019. According to The Atlantic, this was “the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material […]

Posted December 11, 2018

JMU Faculty and Instructors, Do you want to redesign your course to swap out an expensive textbook for an open, no cost, or library option? Are you looking for funding to create or adapt open educational resource materials for your […]

Posted November 27, 2018

THE LIBRARIES will be hosting a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship on Friday, November 30 at noon in Carrier 301. Bring your lunch and join us for this hour-long documentary that focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind […]

Posted November 5, 2018

Dr. Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian, and Dr. Steven Holloway, Director of Metadata Strategies, are co-teaching an Honors 300 course titled “Advanced Special Topics in Honors—Comic Books, Analysis, and Digital Scholarship.” The first goal of the class is to immerse students […]

Posted October 25, 2018

All faculty, students, staff, and community members are invited to the final Special Collections Speaker Series of this semester: Local author Phel Jacobsen will speak about her new book, “I married a Park Ranger and became a Park Wife,” on […]

Posted October 24, 2018

For students, keeping up with the rapidly changing information landscape requires continuously learning new skills. Just in the past couple of years, we have experienced fake news and net neutrality changes that have altered the way we access, manage, and […]

Posted October 16, 2018

JMU Libraries recognize the importance of health literacy for our campus community. Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (Healthy […]