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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 […]

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 […]
JMU’s Secret Study Spaces
Posted March 5, 2025
We asked, you answered! We polled JMU alumni, recent grads, and current students for their reliable, beloved, and secret study spaces. As we reveal these spaces, we hope you add them to your list of places to go when your […]

10 Ways to Celebrate Open Education Week
Posted March 3, 2025
It’s Open Education Week (March 3-7), and we’re celebrating because free and equitable access to information is at the core of what we do. This celebration also reminds us to share how you can help make education more affordable and […]

JMU Textbook Initiative Leads to Student Savings and College Affordability
Posted March 3, 2025
In 2023, JMU formed a task force to address rising textbook costs by promoting the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), which are free, accessible materials that faculty can customize for their courses. The team of representatives from across the […]