Category: General Collections News

Posted February 19, 2025

Good news: When you use Google to search for book titles, you can now see whether JMU Libraries has a copy of the book! Our Metadata Strategies team recently completed a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make this possible.  How […]

Posted February 18, 2025

Our newest display in Rose Library is Lost & Found: How to Land Your Dream Job, created by the University Career Center to promote the University Career Fair. We hope you’ll attend the fair on February 18 & 19 and to check out the display for inspiration […]

Posted February 11, 2025

You may be familiar with Interlibrary Loan (ILL) – when you need a book, article, or another resource that’s unavailable or not part of JMU’s collection, you submit an ILL request, and we use a global network of libraries to […]

Posted January 28, 2025

February is Black History Month, an opportunity to bring intentional focus to the centering and celebrating of Black history. Visit our Black History Month page for a list of local Black history resources, books, films, and other avenues to dig […]

Posted December 12, 2024

Did you know that staff, faculty, and doctoral students can have library books delivered directly to their campus mailbox? This service includes books and other items from JMU Libraries or Interlibrary Loan (ILL)! For JMU Libraries books: Enter your work address […]

Posted December 9, 2024

In 2024, JMU Libraries acquired or expanded 18 major online resources to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. These resources span various subjects and provide business cases, ancient texts, streaming videos, research publications, and more. Several of these new offerings […]

Posted December 9, 2024

JMU Libraries is committed to providing quality scholarly resources that meet your curricular and research needs. We strive to develop and maintain balanced collections that support the subjects taught at JMU.   How do we decide what to purchase? When deciding […]

Posted December 6, 2024

It’s almost the end of the semester! As you wrap up fall, reflect, and start preparing for spring, remember that even though Carrier is under construction, we are here to support your research and teaching. Here are 6 things we’re eager […]

Posted November 22, 2024

If you like browsing books on a physical shelf so you can see titles on a similar topic grouped together, we’d like to draw your attention to a tool in our JMU Library Catalog that might be easy to miss. At […]

Posted October 21, 2024

In 2022, the JMU community gained access to over 2,000 ebooks published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Press when JMU Libraries joined the Direct to Open (D2O) project. Since then, the JMU community has gained access to more […]