COVID-19 Updates: Support for Teaching, Learning, Research and Creative Exploration (Updated January 15)
Posted on: January 15, 2021
Dukes, we’re here for you. We’re still offering the enthusiastic and expert assistance, vibrant programming, and caring approach you have come to expect from us.
Most library spaces are available during our hours of operation to people who follow our safety protocols. Visit our Operations Plan for all you need to know about accessing library spaces and services at this time.
We continue to offer robust support for teaching, learning, research, and creative exploration. Below are our online & in-person offerings for faculty and students during the COVID-19 pandemic:
For faculty – online teaching resources
We support faculty members teaching in hybrid or online modes. You can:
- Enroll in our self-paced Institute for Online & Hybrid Learning
- Consult our Guide to Hybrid & Online Teaching at JMU
- Receive tech support for Canvas and other teaching tools
- Take an online workshop about teaching online or related topics
- Request a personalized consultation with Libraries’ experts
- Request online instruction sessions on information literacy or technology skills for your classes
- Borrow equipment for digital media production and presentations
- Record audio or video content for online course delivery in a professional video recording environment—or receive advice for recording at home. Select “Media Production” on our Consultation and Instruction form
- Learn about the technology in JMU classrooms
And our friends at CFI have created an Online Teaching, Scholarship, and Career Planning Resources page, a relevant teaching toolkit, and an overview of quality teaching. Check them out!
For faculty – research, library, and creativity resources
Faculty pursuing research or seeking library services/materials can:
- Ask us about library resources, services, or materials
- Connect from off-campus to use online resources—including journal articles, ebooks, and streaming movies—from anywhere
- Request that digital materials be put on online Course Reserves
- Request books to be delivered to your departmental mailbox or to an Ask the Library service desk
- Request Interlibrary Loan books, articles, and book chapters
- Make an online appointment with a liaison librarian, copyright expert, and/or open educational resource expert
- Request online library instruction sessions for your classes, in which librarians help students learn how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically
- Schedule a virtual appointment with The Makery to explore what we have available this fall to create, tinker, craft, invent and discover
- Take an online Makery workshop about podcasting, 3D printing, or other making/tinkering topics
- Email Special Collections with reference requests related to Special Collections materials
- Peruse the Special Collections’ Digital Collections
- Review the guidelines for use of the library facilities
For students – online learning, research, creativity, and library resources
We are here for our beloved JMU students. We have expanded our online support to provide the help that you need, no matter where you are. We invite you to:
- Consult our Guide to Hybrid & Online Learning at JMU
- Get help finding resources for a paper or assignment in an online appointment with a librarian
- Ask the Library about online learning or about using library resources
- Connect from off-campus to use our online resources—including streaming movies, ebooks, and more
- Use the online Course Reserves
- Request books from the JMU Libraries collections (or from other libraries around the world via Interlibrary Loan)
- Learn how to use the library facilities or find a socially-distanced study space on campus
- Schedule a virtual appointment with The Makery to explore what we have available to create, tinker, craft, invent and discover
- Take an online workshop about podcasting, 3D printing, or other creativity topics
- Borrow equipment for digital media production or presentations
- Email Special Collections with reference requests related to Special Collections materials
- Peruse the Special Collections’ Digital Collections
And don’t miss the Online Learning Tips infographic, created by student employees with JMU’s Learning Strategies Instruction service.
Returning materials
Our book drops are operational. Read more about returning materials.
We’re here to help
Your friends in the JMU Libraries are taking every possible measure to support our campus community. We are here to help. We will continue to update this page as more information becomes available.
See JMU’s “Stop the Spread” page for up-to-date campus information.
Originally published March 5, 2020. Last updated April 9, 2021.
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