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A New UREC Adventure Display is Now Up in Rose
Posted October 11, 2018
Ready for an adventure? UREC Adventure includes activities and instruction within the UREC walls and outside in the surrounding forests and rivers. Most programs are for those with little to no experience in that activity – so come try something new! Take […]
Black Secret Technologies and Remaking of the Future
Posted October 8, 2018
Black Secret Technologies and Remaking of the Future In 1997, filmmaker John Akomfrah created a short film called The Last Angel of History that was a love letter to Afrocentric electronica. In it, he refers to the Blues as a […]
Women in Politics: A Global Perspective
Posted October 8, 2018
Now on display in Rose Library, October 2018 2018 has brought a record number of women running for office in the United States, Lebanon, and elsewhere around the world. These books explore the past struggles women have endured to be heard, […]
Nature’s Calling! Exploring the Great Outdoors in the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains
Posted October 8, 2018
Now on display in Carrier Library, October 2018 We are lucky to have such abundant outdoor opportunities right at our doorstep in Harrisonburg. Now it is time to take advantage of it! Studies show that getting closer to nature can improve […]
A New Toolkit for a New Information Landscape
Posted September 26, 2018
A New Toolkit for a New Information Landscape Our goal is to introduce all entering students to the scholarly information landscape and prepare them to be critical information consumers and producers. We achieve this goal through the Madison Research Toolkit […]
Muggles, Mischief and Magic
Posted September 21, 2018
Now on display in Carrier Library: JMU may a little less magical than Hogwarts, but we do have our very own Quidditch team. We also have a bunch of books and movies about the Harry Potter universe! Visit our pop-up book display […]
Two JMU Library Employees Receive Grant to Explore Open Access Collections in Libraries.
Posted September 19, 2018
Yasmeen Shorish, Data Service Coordinator, and Liz Thompson, Instruction and Educational Resources Coordinator, received an $89,333 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant. In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, they will convene a series of national forums to […]
Immigration Nation: Recent Books on U.S. Immigration
Posted September 11, 2018
Now on display in Carrier Library: People seeking to immigrate to the U.S., whether to seek new opportunities, join family, or escape chaos and war, deal with issues such as legal processes, daily survival on their journeys, and deep questions […]
The Good Place: Ethics, Pop Culture, and the Afterlife
Posted September 11, 2018
Now on display in Rose Library: The Good Place is a comedy about trying to be a better person, even in the afterlife. We’ve gathered materials about the trolley problem, shrimp, ethics in entertainment, cacti, living with robots, Kant, and other […]
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Posted September 5, 2018
All students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to the first Special Collections Speaker Series of the academic year: Dr. Deborah Whaley, Professor of American Studies from the University of Iowa, will give a presentation on her recent publication Black […]