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A Look Back – Interview with Preservation Assistant Madison Whitesell

Posted August 24, 2017

Madison Whitesell is a recent JMU graduate with degrees in art history and studio art. She began working in Preservation as a sophomore in 2015 and spent this summer working as a wage employee. This is her JMU Libraries story. […]

The Blackley Brownie in Focus

Posted August 21, 2017

Written by Preservation Assistant Madison Whitesell. Brownie cameras gave birth to amateur photography in the early 20th century. This one from the Blackley Collection is a No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie dating from 1917-1926 and it’s in especially great shape. […]

Preservation Puzzles: Creating Custom Housing

Posted August 16, 2017

Written by: Preservation Assistant Madison Whitesell. Three dimensional objects in the Blackley Collection were processed in Preservation for long term storage this Summer. Among these objects are: an early Brownie camera, a hand-colored milk glass plate photograph, a ruby glass […]

In short, we consider him diseased from head to foot

Posted August 10, 2017

While the summer is generally less hectic on campus due to fewer students, less traffic, etc., here in Special Collections we have been busy, busy, busy growing our collections in materials related to local history. A new acquisition we are […]

Collection of Joseph Funk Letters Now in Special Collections

Posted August 7, 2017

Special Collections is pleased to announce a very exciting acquisition – a collection of nine letters, 1832-1836, written by J. W. Hollis, a printer/publisher in Winchester, to Joseph Funk of Singers Glen music fame. Funk was a pioneer American composer and […]

High Five! Title IX Camtasia Training

Posted July 31, 2017

Innovation Services is working with the Title IX Office again, but this time they are working with Camtasia. Amy Sirocky-Meck, Title IX Coordinator, reached out to JMU Libraries in June to learn more about Camtasia and how the program could […]

Madison Fellowship for Digital Teaching and Learning

Posted July 31, 2017

JMU Faculty are invited to apply for the Madison Fellowship or Digital Teaching and Learning, a program of JMU Libraries, Innovation Services. The eight-week fellowship affords the time and space for fellows to develop creative courses, assignments, projects, etc. that might […]

JMU Supports the Library Bill of Rights

Posted June 19, 2017

In a new initiative to showcase that all libraries have a responsibility to serve as a forum for information and ideas, Libraries & Educational Technologies (LET) at James Madison University has installed the American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights” posters in […]

The Heatwole Family Papers Acquired by Special Collections

Posted June 19, 2017

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS is pleased to announce a recently acquired local history manuscript collection! The Heatwole Family Papers were donated to Special Collections last week by descendants of the illustrious David A. Heatwole (1827-1911) family of Rockingham County. Other family names present […]

Processing Update – Davis, Kline, and Hutton Family Papers

Posted June 19, 2017

We’re happy to announce that one of our most recent (and significant) acquisitions is currently undergoing processing. In early April 2017, we acquired several boxes of manuscript material including photographs, correspondence, ledgers, and scrapbooks from the estate of Mary Hutton […]