Category: JMU Libraries News

Posted September 19, 2017

JMU LIBRARIES ARE HOSTING A SERIES OF MAKER SPRINTS this year, culminating in a Hackathon at the end of each semester. Everyone in the JMU community is welcome to participate. The first Sprint will be at the Carrier Makery, and […]

Posted September 18, 2017

Digital Collections and Special Collections are pleased to share the William Garber Photograph Collection, 1930-1960, now available in JMU Scholarly Commons. The collection is comprised of about 1625 negatives and 70 prints taken and developed by William Garber of Garber’s Photo Shop […]

Posted September 15, 2017

Celebrate Constitution Week at JMU with the libraries! September 17th marks the 230 year anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution and to commemorate such an important document there will be various constitutional themed events at Rose and Carrier.  […]

Posted September 8, 2017

LET Innovation Services is embodying the maker movement in new ways – including building a 3D printer Jamie Calcagno-Roach, Eric Stauffer, and Andrea Adams partnered with Cindy Klevickis (ISAT faculty member) and Rockingham County Public Schools to build five 3D […]

Posted August 30, 2017

Welcome (back) to campus! As you settle into the fall semester, we invite you to try some of these 7 things that we bet you didn’t know you could do at JMU Libraries: We hope you have a great academic […]

Posted August 29, 2017

In the wake of the events in Charlottesville on the weekend of August 12 and the issues underlying these events, President Alger officially expressed JMU’s support for friends and colleagues in Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.  If you would like to […]

Posted August 7, 2017

Special Collections is pleased to announce a very exciting acquisition – a collection of nine letters, 1832-1836, written by J. W. Hollis, a printer/publisher in Winchester, to Joseph Funk of Singers Glen music fame. Funk was a pioneer American composer and […]

Posted July 31, 2017

Innovation Services is working with the Title IX Office again, but this time they are working with Camtasia. Amy Sirocky-Meck, Title IX Coordinator, reached out to JMU Libraries in June to learn more about Camtasia and how the program could […]

Posted July 31, 2017

JMU Faculty are invited to apply for the Madison Fellowship or Digital Teaching and Learning, a program of JMU Libraries, Innovation Services. The eight-week fellowship affords the time and space for fellows to develop creative courses, assignments, projects, etc. that might […]

Posted June 19, 2017

In a new initiative to showcase that all libraries have a responsibility to serve as a forum for information and ideas, Libraries & Educational Technologies (LET) at James Madison University has installed the American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights” posters in […]