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Posted March 3, 2022

It’s Open Education Week (March 7-11), and we’re celebrating not just because we’re excited about open education, but also because we still have a long way to go toward making education affordable and accessible at JMU and beyond. Here are […]

Posted February 28, 2022

Posted February 25, 2022

Explore over 2,000 ebooks from MIT Press: We are pleased to announce that the JMU community now has access to over 2,000 ebooks from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Press. JMU Libraries also helped facilitate opening the Spring 2022 title […]

Posted February 25, 2022

Instructional videos are a powerful tool to enhance learning, both in-person and online. They can sometimes lose their effectiveness in teaching due to common mistakes. Take an in-person or Zoom workshop that will address all the areas to think about […]

Posted February 23, 2022

On display online and in Rose Library, February 2022. Selected by Elizabeth Price and Alyssa Young. The food industry is responsible for approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report. That’s why companies are trying […]

Posted February 22, 2022

On March 9, 10am-12:30pm, take a virtual tour of four courses that use open educational resources (OER) or open pedagogy. The cost of textbooks is a serious problem for some students. JMU recommends that students budget $1,098 per year for […]

Posted February 21, 2022

It’s JMU Giving Day! If you are still deciding where to make your gift, consider JMU Libraries. Your gift can help fund scholarships for Libraries student employees like Sean and Selena:   Sean’s work on our Media Production Services team not only helped faculty […]

Posted February 18, 2022

As a JMU Libraries student employee, Selena St. Andre (‘18) found her passion between the pages of old JMU scrapbooks and handwritten farm ledgers from Shenandoah Valley farmers in the early 1900s. Previously, she planned to use her history degree […]

Posted February 9, 2022

Personal correspondence, informal notes, and candid photographs contain some of the richest descriptions of local history. These treasured mementos serve many purposes. A snapshot of neighborhood children taken sixty years ago may contain an image of a long-gone house; a […]

Posted February 9, 2022

We are excited to announce that the JMU community now has access to six new collections of primary source materials related to gender diversity, African American history, and Indigenous history and culture: Where did funding come from? These resources are […]