Category: General Collections News

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 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 […]

Posted July 9, 2024

Did you know that JMU faculty, staff, and students have online access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines? Here are just a few of them: Looking for other news sources from the Libraries? […]

Posted March 8, 2024

Thank you to all the staff and faculty who responded to our survey in December asking what resources you need from us! We can’t do our work without hearing about your needs and experiences. We’re pleased to share these new […]

Posted February 16, 2024

In celebration of Black History Month, here’s a selection of new and noteworthy books that explore topics related to Black history. Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the […]

Posted January 29, 2024

Exciting news for JMU! We can now access the African Books Collective (ABC) collection of about 2,000 scholarly and children’s ebooks published independently in Africa.   What’s in the collection? The ABC has something for everyone, with ebooks on African culture […]