Library News
VCU Libraries hosts "From Broadway, With Love," a performance by VCU music students Gianna Barone and Denver Walker, noon on Tuesday, Valentine's Day, first floor, Cabell Library. The show is part of the "A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs" exhibition. Classically trained vocalist Barone and guitarist Walker will perform a selection of classic love songs from the American Songbook, including "They Say It's Wonderful" by Irving Berlin, "Bewitched" and "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and "Hello, Young Lovers" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
This event is free and open to all.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch Feb. 10, 2012 reported about construction and future building on campus. The article
James Branch Cabell Library patrons again are setting records.
Statistics for fall 2011 show steady and busy usage. Some 900,845 people are counted as library-goers from the start of the semester through the end of exams.
Typically, on Mondays through Thursday peak days, 10,000 to 13,000 people were in the library at some point. Some of them, 8,050 over the span of 24-hour service, used the library from 2 to 7:30 a.m. That late-night use is up 25 percent compared to 2010.
Statistics for fall 2011 show steady and busy usage. Some 900,845 people are counted as library-goers from the start of the semester through the end of exams.
Typically, on Mondays through Thursday peak days, 10,000 to 13,000 people were in the library at some point. Some of them, 8,050 over the span of 24-hour service, used the library from 2 to 7:30 a.m. That late-night use is up 25 percent compared to 2010.
Waiting for the elevator to take you to your floor is now a little more interesting at James Branch Cabell Library. An installation of new wall art surrounding the elevator doors combines basic signage information ("fourth floor quiet study") with quotations.
Some of the quotes have Richmond origins and VCU ties. James Branch Cabell, the early 20th century author for whom the four-story library building on the Monroe Park Campus is named, has a point to make about direction. Humanitarian and tennis great Arthur Ashe offers a lesson in living well. Nobel Laureate John B. Fenn, who taught analytical chemistry at VCU, speaks of the purpose of education. Francis M. Foster, the inspirational teacher, dentist, historian and civic activist, shares his thoughts about quality and quantity.
Some of the quotes have Richmond origins and VCU ties. James Branch Cabell, the early 20th century author for whom the four-story library building on the Monroe Park Campus is named, has a point to make about direction. Humanitarian and tennis great Arthur Ashe offers a lesson in living well. Nobel Laureate John B. Fenn, who taught analytical chemistry at VCU, speaks of the purpose of education. Francis M. Foster, the inspirational teacher, dentist, historian and civic activist, shares his thoughts about quality and quantity.