Category: JMU Libraries News

Posted December 11, 2018

JMU Faculty and Instructors, Do you want to redesign your course to swap out an expensive textbook for an open, no cost, or library option? Are you looking for funding to create or adapt open educational resource materials for your […]

Posted November 27, 2018

THE LIBRARIES will be hosting a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship on Friday, November 30 at noon in Carrier 301. Bring your lunch and join us for this hour-long documentary that focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind […]

Posted November 5, 2018

Dr. Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian, and Dr. Steven Holloway, Director of Metadata Strategies, are co-teaching an Honors 300 course titled “Advanced Special Topics in Honors—Comic Books, Analysis, and Digital Scholarship.” The first goal of the class is to immerse students […]

Posted October 25, 2018

All faculty, students, staff, and community members are invited to the final Special Collections Speaker Series of this semester: Local author Phel Jacobsen will speak about her new book, “I married a Park Ranger and became a Park Wife,” on […]

Posted October 24, 2018

For students, keeping up with the rapidly changing information landscape requires continuously learning new skills. Just in the past couple of years, we have experienced fake news and net neutrality changes that have altered the way we access, manage, and […]

Posted October 16, 2018

JMU Libraries recognize the importance of health literacy for our campus community. Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (Healthy […]

Posted October 8, 2018

Black Secret Technologies and Remaking of the Future In 1997, filmmaker John Akomfrah created a short film called The Last Angel of History that was a love letter to Afrocentric electronica. In it, he refers to the Blues as a […]

Posted September 26, 2018

A New Toolkit for a New Information Landscape Our goal is to introduce all entering students to the scholarly information landscape and prepare them to be critical information consumers and producers. We achieve this goal through the Madison Research Toolkit […]

Posted September 19, 2018

Yasmeen Shorish, Data Service Coordinator, and Liz Thompson, Instruction and Educational Resources Coordinator, received an $89,333 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant. In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, they will convene a series of national forums to […]

Posted September 5, 2018

All students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to the first Special Collections Speaker Series of the academic year: Dr. Deborah Whaley, Professor of American Studies from the University of Iowa, will give a presentation on her recent publication Black […]