Social Justice & Disability in Academia
Posted March 8, 2022
Advising Community Conversations: A New Workshop Series
Posted March 5, 2022
Are you a staff member, instructor, or faculty member involved in advising students? Check out this series of hour-long conversational workshops, hosted by the Advising Resource & Collaboration Network @ JMU with support from University Advising, Academic Advising Board & […]
6 Ways to Celebrate Open Education Week
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 […]
Learn About Ukraine
Posted February 28, 2022
We’ve Added 2,000 More Ebooks Thanks to a New Open Access Project
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 […]
New Workshop: Effective Video for Learning
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 […]
Food, Inc.
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 […]
Faculty: Find Out How Your Peers Are Using Affordable & Open Course Materials
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 […]
Choose Student Employees on Giving Day
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 […]
Feature Friday: Reckoning in the Archives
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 […]