Category: Giving to JMU Libraries News
New Video About Historic Restoration in Carrier Library
Posted February 25, 2025
Our newest video, Revealing and Restoring History in Carrier Library, highlights the incredible work being done to preserve and restore gorgeous 1939 elements of this beloved building. Original column capitals and brackets, some recently uncovered for the first time since […]
Supporting JMU Libraries Means Supporting All Dukes
Posted February 24, 2025
Libraries are places of connection and discovery, where students and scholars consult the wisdom of the past and help to shape the future. When the expanded and renovated Carrier Library reopens for Fall semester 2026, it will serve as a […]
Lost & Found: How to Land Your Dream Job (Book Display)
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 […]
New Photos of Carrier Library’s Transformation in a Short Video
Posted February 14, 2025
We’re excited to share new images showcasing the remarkable transformation occurring in the heart of campus as the Carrier Library renovation and expansion project progresses smoothly and on schedule. Check out our short video featuring architectural renderings of the future Carrier Library […]
Calling All Podcast Listeners
Posted January 27, 2025
Have you discovered JMU’s new podcast, Being the Change? It features interviews with members of the JMU community that take place right in our Audio Recording room in Rose Library! Today, we’re excited to share four episodes that highlight projects […]
Graduates of the past change Carrier Library’s future (from JMU News)
Posted January 24, 2025
When Stan Jones (’54) enrolled at Madison College as a day student, he walked the sidewalks of his childhood from home to work, class and back home again. His daily route passed by the campus library, which quickly became his […]
The Library of the Future (from the “Being the Change” podcast)
Posted December 5, 2024
The Carrier Library renovation currently underway is a stunning project that will ultimately grace campus with a facility befitting JMU’s rise. Join Dean of Libraries Bethany Nowviskie and members of her team to hear more about this exciting addition to […]
‘It’ll be there long after we’re gone’: Carrier Library wing to be named after alumnus (from The Breeze)
Posted December 5, 2024
Stan (’54) and Rosemary Jones donated $2.5 million to JMU in Nov. 2024 to be put toward the current renovation of Carrier Library. In appreciation, the “new” wing of Carrier Library will be named after the couple, according to a […]
JMU Libraries is working to make textbooks more affordable
Posted November 21, 2024
At JMU Libraries, free and equitable access to information is at the core of what we do. Here are four ways we are working to make textbooks and other academic resources more freely available for JMU students: 1. We encourage […]
Feature Friday: Getting Black Humanities Research on the Map
Posted September 19, 2024
For the last nine years, JMU faculty member Mollie Godfrey and former faculty member Seán McCarthy have been working alongside local Harrisonburg community members and students on a project to recover the histories of a local Black teacher–Lucy F. Simms–and […]
