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New at VCU Libraries: Extended Starbucks hours, new doors, more resources

Posted August 29, 2011 1:55 PM in Top News, Updates and New
Visitors to VCU Libraries will notice some high-profile changes this academic year. Starbucks has extended its hours to match most hours that the doors at James Branch Cabell Library are open. Both the Cabell academic commons and Starbucks now operate 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily Monday through Thursday. Starbucks also is open until 4 p.m. on Friday afternoons, 6 p.m. Saturday (until the library building closes) and until 11 p.m. Sunday nights. Library and coffee shop hours

Additional improvements to VCU Libraries include:

  • Also at Cabell, the back-to-the-'70s heavy and stubborn doors are gone, gone, gone. In their place are sliding atrium-style doors. The old doors posed enough of an aggravation, and a safety hazard, that students started a Facebook page to vent about the doors.
  • Hanging in the new, breezy walk-through space are posters featuring Rams Head Basketball Coach Shaka Smart and VCU President Michael Rao. Smart is the star of an image campaign promoting VCU Libraries.
  • VCU Libraries acquired 140,000 new electronic books that are now available online, along with 30,000 print books. 
  • New software is available on all of the library workstations for statistical work (SAS, Mathematica, JMP). This is a partnership with VCU Technology Services), image editing (GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program), and plugins for students taking the INFO16X series of courses (MyITlab).
  • Renovations at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences on the MCV Campus provide new collaboration and group study space.
  • New gallery exhibition space in the main reading room at Tompkins-McCaw gives students an opportunity for a break from study and reflection. On view now is "Watercolors" by VCU School of Pharmacy Dean Victor Yanchick. An earlier show was "Bedpan Elegance: Celebrating the Beauty of an Everyday Object." 
  • New equipment in Cabell includes a public fax machine (first floor), two overhead scanners, one on the third floor and one on the first and two headsets available from the Circulation desk. These headsets are combined earphones and microphones for use when Skyping.
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