Category: Feature Friday

Posted March 5, 2021

Peer Research Advisers (PRAs) are student employees in JMU Libraries who are trained to help their peers in the College of Business with the rigorous research required to create a business plan for COB 300 and other assignments. In this […]

Posted February 26, 2021

Two years before Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman made history with her performances at the 2021 presidential inauguration and Super Bowl, she took the stage at James Madison University as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Furious Flower […]

Posted February 12, 2021

In 2015 and 2016, Brian Flota of JMU Libraries donated over 10,000 comic books to JMU. These are housed in Special Collections–the arm of the Libraries that restores and handles the most rare, fragile, and valuable items. Since then, Flota […]

Posted February 5, 2021

The Lucy F. Simms School was once a pillar of the Black community in Harrisonburg, Virginia. From 1939-1966, the Lucy. F. Simms School was a thriving public school for Black children in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. While its closure during […]

Posted December 11, 2020

JMU’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is about to get even faster, and Mikki Butcher (’20) is the person you can thank. You may be familiar with Interlibrary Loan – when you need a book, article, or another resource that’s not part […]

Posted December 4, 2020

Before Shenandoah National Park was founded, these lands were home for generations of Virginians. Some families lived on the same land for 250 years.  In the 1930s, over 2,000 people in eight counties in Virginia were removed from the land […]

Posted November 20, 2020

With this week’s feature, we’re shining the spotlight on Yasmeen Shorish, who is working hard to protect our privacy, promote open access to information, and help us consider publishing rights. Through dual roles, Yasmeen helps to promote equity and inclusion […]

Posted November 13, 2020

In March of this year, JMU faculty were faced with an unimaginable task. They needed to move all their courses online in a week and a half so that students could leave campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty […]

Posted November 6, 2020

Carolyn joined JMU Libraries in 2011. She became Interim Director of Research & Education Services in 2017, and in 2020 this role became permanent.  As Director of Research & Education Services, Carolyn leads our team of liaison librarians to each […]

Posted October 30, 2020

Professor Gianluca De Fazio (Justice Studies) has worked with JMU Libraries since 2017 to build a digital history project on lynching in Virginia – Racial Terror: Lynchings in Virginia. The resulting website acts as an essential, ongoing database of lynchings […]