January 2011 Archives
VCU Friends of the Library, faculty, staff and students are all encouraged to become a part of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award selection process by reading and reviewing this year's eligible books. A total of 80 books are now available for check-out in the shelf beside the circulation desk in Cabell Library.
A list of the books and their current availability can be found in the VCU Cabell First Novelist Catalog. To participate in the selection process, just check out a book that looks interesting, read it and submit a review. Reviews may be submitted either in paper form at the circulation desk in Cabell Library or through e-mail to firstnovelist@gmail.com. Please follow the guidelines on the Cabell First Novelist Review Sheet.
Your participation will be extremely helpful in narrowing down the selection for the judges, who will then determine the winner of the award from a short list of finalists. The deadline for you to read books and submit your reviews is Friday, April 1, 2011.
Thank you for your interest and participation. You will enjoy sampling the work of some of the most promising new authors. The VCU Cabell First Novelist books represent a wide variety of authors and approaches to the art of the novel, so you are sure to find a book that speaks to you or that offers you something excitingly new.
Presented annually by the VCU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors the best first novel published during the previous calendar year. The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, James Branch Cabell Library Associates, VCU Friends of the Library, VCU Libraries, VCU Honors College and VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.
Over 50 images of buildings in Richmond's historic Jackson Ward neighborhood are on display on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library as part of VCU Libraries' observance of Black History Month. The images were originally used in The Jackson Ward Historic District published by the city in 1978. The images were taken by John Zehmer and the text was provided by Richmond architectural historian Robert P. Winthrop. An online version of the book was created by VCU Libraries in 2008 as part of the library's Digital Collections.
The online collection presents the entire book as originally published, page by page. Each of the original photographic prints, scanned from the mock-up boards, is available. Each photograph is presented with the accompanying text from the original book, with additional information about the architectural style and features of the building depicted.
A small portion of the original mock-up boards with photographs of buildings in Jackson Ward, many demolished since they were taken in 1978, will be on display in the fourth floor exhibit area of the James Branch Cabell Library from now until the end of the semester. The original photographs are housed in Special Collections and Archives.
Now available online: the entire archive of the Commonwealth Times, VCU's student newspaper. This digital collection includes over 1,680 issues of the Commonwealth Times, spanning the years from 1969 through 2010. The Commonwealth Times began publishing in September 1969, at the peak of the political and social turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changing cultural attitudes of those times were reflected in the newspaper and over the decades the CT has continued to try to capture the events and essence of the university. The CT continues to publish in print but is also available online.
Each issue up to the summer of 2004 has been scanned in its entirety from original print copies. Starting with September 2004, we are presenting digital archive PDFs received directly from the Commonwealth Times. The complete text of every issue is fully searchable. A text search can also be narrowed to only search front page headlines. For each issue, there is a link to a full PDF of the entire issue.
This collection is part of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.
Become familiar with Cabell Library early and save on hassles later in the semester. Cabell Library tours meet inside the first-floor main entrance and last approximately 30 minutes. Participants will learn more about the facility, collections, and resources, as well as how library services and staff can assist visitors in completing their assignments. No registration required.
For more information about these tours and other VCU Libraries events and workshops, visit the events page.
- Thurs, Jan 20, 10 a.m.
- Thurs, Jan 20, 3:30 p.m.
- Fri, Jan 21, 11 a.m.
- Fri, Jan 21, 1 p.m.
- Tues, Jan 25, 12:30 p.m.
- Tues, Jan 25, 3:30 p.m.
- Wed, Jan 26, 12 p.m.
- Wed, Jan 26, 4 p.m.
"Forgotten Roots: Muslims in Early America" -- The exhibit explores the Muslims of the African American Diaspora from the 1400s through the 1800s, the Moors, and others in Early America, reflecting America's Islamic history and culture. "Forgotten Roots" is created by Collections & Stories of American Muslims, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, collection, and exhibition of America's rich Islamic heritage.
Date: January 24-28, 2011
Time: James Branch Cabell Library hours
Location:
1st Floor, James Branch Cabell Library
901 Park Ave.
Richmond, VA 23284
Join us also for a tour of the exhibit. Following the tour will be a discussion with Amir N. Muhammad, President of Collections & Stories of American Muslims.
Date: January 25, 2011
Time: 6:00 p.m. (tour), 7:00 p.m. (discussion)
Location:
2nd Floor Learning Commons (discussion), James Branch Cabell Library
This event is generously sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and co-sponsored by the Muslim Students' Association at VCU, the Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs, and the Islamic Center of Virginia. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 828-0593 or (804) 828-1105 prior to Feb. 8, 2011.
For information about the current Brown-Lyons Lecture, see the event website.Date: March 24, 2011
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location:
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23284
This event is generously sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library, the VCU Center for Judaic Studies, the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, the Richmond Jewish Foundation, and the Weinstein JCC. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 827-1165 or (804) 828-0593 prior to Mar. 22, 2011. For questions or comments, please e-mail Antonia Vassar at vassaram@vcu.edu or Kimberly Separ at krsepar@vcu.edu.
For further information, please see:
http://www.library.vcu.edu/events/blyons/
"An Evening with Melissa Harris-Perry" -- Melissa Harris-Perry is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. Her academic research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the multiple, creative ways that African Americans respond to these challenges. She is also an award winning author and appears regularly on MSNBC and other media venues. Professor Harris-Perry will be discussing African Americans and gender in politics.
Date: February 10, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location:
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Ave.
Richmond, VA 23284
This event is generously sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 828-0593 or (804) 828-1105 prior to Feb. 8, 2011. For questions and comments, please e-mail Gregory Kimbrell at kimbrellgg@vcu.edu or Kimberly Separ at krsepar@vcu.edu.
For further information, please see:
http://www.library.vcu.edu/bhm/events.html
