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Posted August 1, 2023

By Kacey Damaty, Assistant Director, Ethical Reasoning in Action JMU’s Ethical Reasoning in Action (ERiA) team is delivering “It’s Complicated” virtually to nearly 5,000 incoming JMU students beginning this fall. Data from the past 10 years of facilitating “It’s Complicated” […]

Posted August 1, 2023

We’ve moved! The free JMU Community Seed Library is now located on the first floor of Rose Library, right around the stairs from the main entrance.  Come visit! Visit the self-service seed cabinet any time the building is open to […]

Posted July 27, 2023

Our Carrier Renovation and Expansion website was selected as the winner of a public relations award from the American Library Association! The award “recognizes the very best public relations materials produced by libraries in the past year. Entries are evaluated […]

Posted July 26, 2023

When you visit our new temporary JMU Libraries Express location, you’ll see something familiar: the display stand from Carrier Library! We’ve set up a few fun reads & award winning books to give it that library feel. Check one out […]

Posted July 19, 2023

July is Disability Pride Month! JMU’s Office of Disability Services put together a virtual display of books, ebooks, and films to illustrate how far disability rights have come – and just how far they still have to go. Check it […]

Posted July 19, 2023

If you’ve walked by Carrier Library lately, you’ve probably noticed some changes! The left picture shows the exterior of the 1980s portion of the building being removed! The beautiful curved entrance on the right is an artist’s rendering of what […]

Posted July 18, 2023

A June 25, 1881 diary entry written by Henry Smals, whose collection of diaries is housed in JMU Special Collections, was featured in a recent news story by WHSV meteorologist Aubrey Urbanowicz. Tiffany Cole, Special Collections Archivist, identified Smals’s entry after Urbanowicz […]

Posted June 27, 2023

Posted June 7, 2023

Carrier Library may be closed for renovation and expansion, but you still have access to library services and resources in four locations and online! Four Library Locations JMU Libraries offers a variety of spaces for studying, working in groups, printing, […]

Posted June 6, 2023

Shenandoah Valley Living is a website run by the Shenandoah Valley Partnership that helps people who are looking for information about living and working in the Shenandoah Valley. Recently, they published a roundup of JMU Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spaces, listing […]