Category: Special Collections News
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 […]
Special Collections Reading Room Available by Appointment
Posted October 20, 2020
The JMU Libraries Special Collections reading room in Carrier Library is now open to researchers by appointment. Schedule an Appointment: Appointment blocks are set for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in the mornings and afternoons. Appointments must be requested at least […]
Two new local history collections available in the Special Collections
Posted February 5, 2020
JMU Libraries Special Collections recently acquired two new collections that hold local interest, and which have already been accessed by history students at JMU for research projects. The Massanutten Hatchery Photographs, 1934-1948 documents a chicken hatchery that was once the home […]
Alumni scrapbook provides documentary (and physical) evidence of building’s christening
Posted June 13, 2019
A recently donated collection of alumni papers is now available for research! Pearl Haldeman Stickley’s great nephew, William M. Beck of Fredericksburg, donated his aunt’s scrapbooks to JMU Special Collections last week. The scrapbooks – full of concert and theater […]
Local History Celebrated in Libraries Collaborations this Spring
Posted May 22, 2019
The last few weeks of the Spring 2019 semester delivered several celebrations of projects led by JMU students relating to local Harrisonburg and Shenandoah Valley history. The Libraries assisted with key components to four of them. On April 24, 2019, […]
Color Our Collections – Images from 1923
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 […]
Keeping Up-to-Date with an Age-Old-Art
Posted August 9, 2018
JMU Libraries’ Preservation Officer Attends Summer Workshops atCat Tail Run School for Bookbinding Arts by Julia Merkel The time to hone “bench” skills, learn new repair techniques, and catch up with colleagues in the book arts is always a welcome […]
The 19th Amendment: A History of Women’s Rights at JMU
Posted May 16, 2018
By Fiona Wirth JMU Libraries is pleased to present the sixth Dressing for Education exhibit collaboration between Special Collections and the JMU Historic Clothing Collection. This exhibit celebrates the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment’s ratification and explores the […]
Q&A with Yoon Ji Kim on processing the Bradley and Brian Flota Comic Book Collection
Posted May 7, 2018
Special Collections Graduate Student Assistant, Yoon Ji Kim, has recently completed processing The Bradley and Brian Flota Comic Book Collection. A portion of the comic books were donated in 2015 by Dr. Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian at James Madison University, and became […]
Color Our Collections – February 5-9, 2018
Posted February 1, 2018
Join us for the Color Our Collections event, February 5-9, 2018! Led by The New York Academy of Medicine, the event invites you to download images from library and cultural institution collections, color them, and share them on social media using the event […]