April 2011 Archives
Cabell Library is again open 24 hours a day from Sunday morning, April 24, until Friday evening, May 13. Library Lite All Nite means that you can use our 30 group study rooms, work on projects, check out books and laptops, and get your middle of the night caffeine fix at Starbucks, all without leaving the library.
For more details, visit the Library Lite All Nite web page.
American History in Video provides the largest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Researchers can analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Classical Scores Library makes accessible the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 scores. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
Classical Music Reference Library offers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century, including definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's dictionary of music, Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, and Baker's student encyclopedia of music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.
African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Researchers can explore biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies, chronicling the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's cultures. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 international expert contributors, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies.
Special Collections & Archives at James Branch Cabell Library is displaying Rams memorabilia in the exhibit area on the fourth floor. Among the memorabilia are photographs, flyers, and pennants from decades past, documenting both the history of the Rams and the evolution of their image. Also among the memorabilia are items celebrating the success of the Rams in the 2011 NCAA Basketball Championship.
Special Collection & Archives is accepting donations of Rams memorabilia from the recent championship. Items such as tickets, flyers, posters, t-shirts, pennants, cheer gear, and photographs, almost anything that will help document the season, are particularly desired. If you have items that you would be interested in donating, please bring them to Special Collections & Archives on the fourth floor of James Branch Cabell Library from Monday through Friday between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. For questions or suggestions, please contact Special Collection & Archives at (804) 828-1108.
In the exhibit area on the fourth floor of James Branch Cabell Library, two new exhibits of book art are on display. The first focuses on pieces from the Women's Studio Workshop, the nation's largest publisher of hand-printed, hand-bound books. Founded in 1974, the Workshop has published nearly 200 volumes. Special Collections & Archives at James Branch Cabell Library is a repository for the Workshop and has over 170 volumes from its collection. The second exhibit is of travel-themed pieces and includes the work of Linda K. Johnson, a graduate of VCU's MFA in Visual Communication program.
Celebrating VCU's Goes Green & Earth DayTapped
Thur., April 14, 2011
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Cabell Library, Multipurpose Room, 250
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right or a commodity that should be bought and sold? Stephanie Soechtig's debut documentary offers a look into the unregulated world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back a resource as a commodity: our water. This inspiring film exposes the hidden impacts of the big business of bottled water on individual health, local communities, agriculture, and the global environment. (76 minutes)
Please bring a lunch.
Co-sponsored by VCU Libraries and Student Affairs & Enrollment Services: University Student Commons & Activities (USC&A Programs). Visit VCU Libraries events page for more information on other upcoming events and workshops.
VCU Libraries and the Center for Clinical and Translational Research will host a New Authors' Discussion Forum on Thursday, April 14, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Tompkins-McCaw Library, room 2-010. This session will provide junior faculty and students new to publishing the opportunity to gain a better understanding about how the peer-reviewed journal process works. The panel will feature VCU faculty with extensive experience in the research and publication process. Register online to attend.
The 2011 VCU Technology Fair, cosponsored by the VCU Libraries and VCU Technology Services, brings the latest in technology developments for the classroom and research to VCU. Thinking about purchasing an Apple iPad, a smartphone, or a Netbook? Want to learn how others are using emerging technologies to streamline their research, workflow, patient interactions, and educational experience? Then join us for the 2011 VCU Technology Fair to investigate solutions and try hands-on demonstrations of helpful new products.
Where and when:
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons
Monroe Park Campus
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Faculty & Staff - 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with light refreshments served
Students, Faculty & Staff - 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. with snack luncheon
Tompkins-McCaw Library
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:00 am to 2:00 pm with snack luncheon
For additional information, please contact:
Hope Adams at the Monroe Park Campus: adamsh@vcu.edu
Shannon Jones at the MCV Campus: sdjones@vcu.edu
You can now reserve one of the 30 group study rooms in Cabell Library by visiting VCU Libraries Mobile on your smartphone or Internet-enabled handheld device. Rooms can be reserved for up to two hours at a time, three times a week, and up to fourteen days in advance. Mobile visitors to the non-mobile version of the room reservation system will be automatically redirected to the mobile version.
VCU Libraries Mobile offers an easy way to quickly find out what hours the libraries are open, find available computers, search over 40 mobile-enabled article databases, and use mobile research tools.
