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Hours and Services for JMU Spring Break

Posted March 12, 2025

During JMU’s 2025 spring break, Rose Library will offer these hours: Look before you leave: Please check the hours and access information for JMU Libraries Express, the Music Library, Special Collections, the Learning Innovations & Design Desk, and The Makery […]

Celebrating Disability Advocacy Week

Posted March 11, 2025

Join us in celebrating Disability Advocacy Week (March 31-April 4, 2025), organized every year by JMU’s Office of Disability Services! Check out the resources below for opportunities to learn, celebrate, and advocate for disability, accessibility, and belonging in higher education. […]

Unlearning Ableism Together

Research Guides: Choose a Subject and Start Here

Posted March 11, 2025

Our Research Guides were created by your liaison librarians to help you find relevant resources related to specific subjects or even courses! Watch our How Research Guides Can Help You tutorial to learn more.

Textbook Adoption Deadlines and Reminders

Posted March 11, 2025

It’s textbook adoption time! Here are 3 important reminders for you:  Open textbooks are just one of the many ways you can make textbooks more affordable for your students. And we can help!  Questions? Contact Liz Thompson, our Open Education Librarian. 

We Can Help Faculty with Video and Media Production

Posted March 10, 2025

Do you need to create videos or other media for your classes? We can help faculty record videos or audio in our video production studio on the 5th floor of Rose Library—or in the location of your choice! We also […]

Do You Speak Multiple Languages?

Posted March 10, 2025

Happy International Day of Multilingualism (March 27)! At JMU Libraries, we’re happy to offer books, videos, and other resources in a variety of languages. We’re also proud to offer a Library Search tool that can be used in 20 different […]

laptop with flags and text reading Library Search in 20 languages

Workshops on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Posted March 7, 2025

Interested in improving your graphics skills?   Join one of our interactive, in-person workshops on Adobe software, available on these computers, to help you level up:  Want self-paced training on Adobe software? Check out our subscription to LinkedIn Learning. 

New Book Display: All Bodies Are Good Bodies

Posted March 7, 2025

Our newest book display, All Bodies are Good Bodies, is now online and in Rose Library. Whether we realize it or not, we often see messages that there is a singular body type that is healthy, more desirable, more virtuous, […]

New Book Display: Unlearning Ableism Together

Posted March 7, 2025

Our new book display, Unlearning Ableism Together, is now in JMU Libraries Express and online. This display is in honor of JMU’s annual Disability Advocacy Week, presented by the Office of Disability Services (ODS). It features resources selected by ODS […]

Read The Chronicle of Higher Education for Free

Posted March 6, 2025

Did you know that the Libraries provides JMU with unlimited access to The Chronicle of Higher Education online? The Chronicle covers academia in the U.S. and publishes online content every weekday.  Our subscription provides unlimited access to The Chronicle’s online […]