The lecture is free and open to the public, but because seating is limited, registration is required. If special accommodations are needed or to register offline, please call (804) 827-1165 or (804) 828-0593 prior to March 27. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. A reception will be held immediately following the lecture. Doors open at 7 p.m.To register

The 27th Annual Brown-Lyons Lecture is 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.

Dr. Jack D. Spiro holds the Harry Lyons Distinguished Chair in Judaic Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also director of the VCU Center for Judaic Studies and editor of its online publication, Menorah Review. He has earned two doctorates from the Hebrew Union College and the University of Virginia. He has authored, co-authored or edited over 30 books and written numerous articles.

Komunyakaa's often autobiographical poems draw from diverse experiences and interests: the civil rights movement, classical literature, the Vietnam War, class struggle and jazz. He received a Bronze Star for his service as a war correspondent in Southeast Asia. His book "Dien Cai Dau" (1988, Wesleyan University Press) is lauded as some of the finest writing about the Vietnam War and its times. His poems about black America and music are celebrated as both masterpieces of verse and vital cultural documents. "The task of the poet," he says, "is to pose serious questions that can make us more human."

Books will be available for purchase at the event, and a public reception and book signing will be held immediately following the reading. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all, but because seating is limited, registration is required. For special accommodations or to register offline, please contact Gregory Kimbrell at (804) 828-0593 or kimbrellgg@vcu.edu.

Komunyakaa's often autobiographical poems draw from diverse experiences and interests: the civil rights movement, classical literature, the Vietnam War, class struggle and jazz. He received a Bronze Star for his service as a war correspondent in Southeast Asia. His book "Dien Cai Dau" (1988, Wesleyan University Press) is lauded as some of the finest writing about the Vietnam War and its times. His poems about black America and music are celebrated as both masterpieces of verse and vital cultural documents. "The task of the poet," he says, "is to pose serious questions that can make us more human."

Books will be available for purchase at the event, and a public reception and book signing will be held immediately following the reading. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all, but because seating is limited, registration is required. For special accommodations or to register offline, please contact Gregory Kimbrell at (804) 828-0593 or kimbrellgg@vcu.edu.

• March 2: First Friday opening of an invitational exhibit at the Art6 Gallery, 6 East Broad St. Artists in all media developed works that reconstructed the destroyed painting or responded to Van Gogh's creation or destruction of that work.   
• March 4: The Pinkney Near Memorial Lecture in Art History, Art6 Gallery, 4 p.m. Edwards will discuss the ghost paintings. 
  
• March 6: Van Gogh etching on display, Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, 2 to 4 p.m. Edwards speaks at 3 p.m.  
• March 7: 2012 Powell-Edwards Lecture, VCU Student Commons, 7 p.m. Edwards will speak and show images related to a book in progress, "Van Gogh's Ghost Paintings." A reception will follow. Van Gogh Events Web site
  
  Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear, January 1889 

This one-hour session will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline, as well as discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.

This workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 on the third floor of Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary. Address questions to Dan Ream, or call 828-6545 for more information.

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The event includes two sessions. The first, from 6 to 6:30 p.m., will offer an overview of the VCU Book Art Collection by Gay Acompanado, archival assistant for the arts. The second session, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., will allow attendees to see, touch, play with and listen to pieces of book art.

"Interactive Book Art" is co-sponsored by the Cabell Library Undergraduate Advisory Committee (CLUAC) and the VCU Friends of the Library. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are asked to register online.

Also called artists' books, book art is a contemporary art form in which the artist uses the structure or elements of the book to communicate a message or concept. Artists' books can be one-of-a-kind objects, or they can be published in limited editions. Their content can be textual, visual, tactile, auditory, or a mixture of these. Formally, artists' books may closely resemble traditional books or appear more sculptural. VCU's  Book Art Collection includes nearly 4,000 items. The collection is international in scope and is strongest in publications from the 1960s to the present. It encompasses all aspects of contemporary book art publications ranging from photo-narratives to three-dimensional works.

Web site for the event

Is your scholarly research really intended only for those wealthy enough to afford the journal you publish in? Or would you rather have your work freely accessible to everyone without charge, while still published in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal?

On Monday, November 7, from 1 to 2 p.m., Dan Ream of VCU Libraries offers the workshop "Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty." It is open to all.

As journal subscription costs have increased dramatically, fewer and fewer libraries can afford every journal that is needed, including some that are considered prestigious and essential. Faculty worldwide have responded by creating and publishing their research in open access, peer-reviewed journals that charge no fee to their readers. Faculty Senates from Harvard to Berkeley to the University of Virginia have endorsed open access publishing for their faculty, with a few even mandating that their faculty share their research with the world via open access publishing.

VCU's Faculty Senate last year passed a resolution urging the VCU promotion and tenure committees to reconsider the value of peer-reviewed open access publishing in promotion and tenure deliberations.

This one-hour session will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open-access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline, as well as discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.

This workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 in James Branch Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary.  Address questions to Dan Ream, or call 828-6545 for more information.

• VCU Libraries membership in Hindawi Publishing, which enables all VCU faculty a complete waiver of authors' fees when publishing in any of their 300+ peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines. Here is a list of  VCU faculty who have  recently published in Hindawi journals.
• The VCU Faculty Senate in December, 2010 passed a resolution endorsing open-access publishing, encouraging that "VCU Promotion and Tenure committees should recognize that publication and editorial effort in open access, peer-reviewed journals or republication of peer-reviewed articles in an open access repository offers added value and greater public good than scholarship made only available in expensive journal publications."
• The Center for Teaching Excellence posted a podcast with VCU librarian Dan Ream about peer-reviewed open-access publishing;
• Dr. Jonathan Becker, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, led an October, 2010  CTE Brown Bag Lunch conversation (archived here) entitled "Publishing 2.0:Open Access, Digital Scholarship and Public Intellectualism."
• VCU librarian Dan Ream spoke on copyright retention and open access publishing at the Oct. 11, 2011 VCU Presidential Inauguration Research Lecture Series at the Larrack Center.

On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 at 1 p.m. VCU librarian Dan Ream will offer a one-hour presentation on Open-Access Scholarly Publishing for VCU faculty, students, and staff. This event is also open to the general public. http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2011/10/open-access-week-marks-the-new-norm.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2011/10/open-access-week-marks-the-new-norm.html Archive Scholarly Communications Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:37:46 -0500 The VCU Friends of the Library will hold the annual book sale from Monday, Oct. 24 through Friday, Oct. 28 in room B-7 of James Branch Cabell Library. There are hundreds of books, most for $2 or less. All proceeds from the sale help to fund VCU  Libraries' programs, collections and lectures.

2011 Sale Hours:
Monday, Oct. 24: Noon - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 25: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 26: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 27: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ** Special ½ price sale
Friday, Oct. 28: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.** Special ½ price sale

Preview Sale for Friends of the Library Donors:
Monday, Oct 24: 9 am - Noon (Please present your Friends donor card for admission to the preview sale.)

Each day leading up to the sale, we are posting to the VCU Libraries Facebook wall a selection of three interesting or unusual thematically related books that give a small preview of the material in the sale. We began with "Famous Johns," a category that includes "John Adams" by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, "The Day John Died" by Christopher Andersen and "John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father" by Francis J. Bremer. Come to the sale to find a large selection of other books about or by famous Johns . . . in addition to novels, collections of poems, plays, books on Virginia, history books, books on film and dance, cookbooks, scientific and medical books and travel books. There are also CDs, DVDs, LPs and other media.

For further information,  see the book sale website or contact Gregory Kimbrell at (804) 828-0593 or kimbrellgg@vcu.edu.

The book sale is made possible through the generous donations of people from the Richmond area and beyond. Anyone can donate. For more information on how you can contribute to the next book sale, please see our book donation website.

The big event in metro Richmond is Friday, Oct. 28. At the Archives Fair at James Branch Cabell Library, representatives from archives around Virginia will be available to talk about their collections, institutions and assist with research needs. The Virginia fair introduces students, educators, historians and genealogists to primary source materials preserved in area museums, libraries, universities, historical societies and associations. Archivists will be available to talk about their collections, their institutions, and provide expert tips about archival research and preservation. (At left, a 1964 photo of MCV Hospitals chief Dr. R. Blackwell Smith at a fundraising gala.)

The fair will be held 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of Cabell Library at 901 Park Ave. in the center of the Monroe Park Campus.

In addition, Special Collections in Cabell Library will host a book talk and signing. Author Brian Burns will discuss his just-published book, "Lewis Ginter: Richmond's Gilded Age Icon," at 2 p.m. in the second floor multi-purpose room of Cabell Library. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture at 3 p.m. in Special Collections and Archives on the fourth floor. The events are open to all. Burns used the VCU Libraries collection during the research phase for the book. (At left: The book jacket.)

About VCU Libraries Archives

Special Collections and Archives at Tompkins-McCaw has a vast manuscript collection that includes the personal papers of nurses, physicians, dentists and others as well as the records of various professional organizations. Collections are always being added and are available for use by faculty, staff, students and the general public. Special Collections also holds a wide array of medical artifacts, rare books, photographs, and portraits. Special Collections and Archives in Cabell is known for his historic collections and its book art and comic arts collections.

Archives Month is a collaborative effort to celebrate the commonwealth's archival and special collections repositories and the rich cultural record they protect. It is a project of the Library of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.
Participating Organizations

·    Catholic Diocese of Richmond
·    Library of Virginia
·    Museum of the Confederacy
·    Newport News Library, Martha Woodroof Hiden Collection 
·    Norfolk Southern Archives 
·    Old Dominion University 
·    Randolph-Macon College
·    Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg 
·    University of Virginia, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library 
·    Valentine Richmond History Center
·    James Branch Cabell Library at VCU
     Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences at VCU
·    Virginia Historical Society
·    Virginia State Union
·    Virginia Union University

The 9/11 Commemoration at Cabell Library, which ends Friday, Sept. 23, has generated much talk about 9/11 itself, but also much talk about sound art. Stephen Vitiello speaks about sound art and reflects on his piece "World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd," a central component of the Commemoration, in this brief documentary, "Listening with Intent," from ABC Arts Online.

John Priestley of the VCU School of Medicine, who is also a sound artist, referred to footage from the film in his presentation on Vitiello's World Trade Center piece at the 9/11 Commemoration opening reception Sept. 9. For those who were unable to attend or who wish to revisit the background information that he provided, he has made the presentation available on his website, where he archives many of his experiments in sound art.

Here are 10 examples of what is available in VCU Libraries media collection. The service desk is located on the Third Floor of James Branch Cabell Library.

1. America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero. Documents the clearing of the wreckage of the World Trade Center from the perspective of the construction workers, firemen, and engineers who accomplished the task in the nine months following the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks. Also shows the dialogue among community members, victims' families, real estate developers, architects, and city officials about what should be done with the site. Part two traces the progress made during 2002 to 2006 and continues to follow the discussion and plans for memorial space and other uses of the former site of the World Trade Center. Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs HV6432.7 .A63 2006 DVD/Video Loan
2. The Balancing Act: Security and Liberty Post 9/11. CNN journalist Frank Sesno moderates this energetic and informative program exploring the post-9/11 relationship between security and personal freedom in America. Seven distinguished panelists - including USA PATRIOT Act author Viet Dinh, bioterrorism specialist Margaret Hamburg, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government professor Juliette Kayyem - confront scenarios involving hypothetical attacks on American soil. Their discussions examine such critical issues as indefinite detainment, the rights of Arab-Americans, the relevance of the Freedom of Information Act, and varying interpretations of USA PATRIOT Act. Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs KF4850 .B345 2005 DVD/Video Loan 
3. Divided we fall: Americans in the aftermath. 2008 Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college student when she set out across America in the aftermath of 9/11, camera in hand, to document hate violence against her community. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American west, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis--racism and religion, fear and forgiveness--until she finds the heart of America... halfway around the world"--Container. Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs JV6456 .D58 2008 DVD/Video Loan 
4. Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. Frontline illuminates the myriad spiritual questions that have come out of the terror, pain, and destruction of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and explores how the spiritual lives of both believers and non-believers have been challenged in the aftermath of September 11 by questions of good and evil, God's culpability, and the potential for darkness within religion itself. Internet Resources HV6432.7 .F35 2005 INTERNET
5. In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01. An HBO documentary. At 8:47am, the city would be jolted into its worst nightmare as a chain of tragic events unfolded, changing the lives of New Yorkers and Americans forever. People from 115 different countries died at the World Trade Center. From still and video cameras of 118 people and 16 news agencies, much of it never-before seen, from in and around New York City, the attack on the WTC was the most documented event in history. The film features the Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, Fire Commissioner Thomas von Essen, Operations Chief of City Government Joe Lhota, Communications Director Sunny Mindel, Executive Assistant to the Mayor Beth Petrone. The score, composed entirely of music by American composers, was recorded expressly for the film on April 2, 2002 by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Slatkin at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. New York Center of the World. One of eight episodes. The first part of this final chapter of the series provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following September 11, 2001. To understand the impact of 9/11, episode eight reaches back to when the idea of a "world trade center" was first conceived and the towers were constructed. You'll then explore the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the attack--and what Americans can learn from the recovery effort. Internet Resources F128.3 .N563 2005 episode 8, pt.1 INTERNET
6. Inside 911. Originally produced as a television documentary for the National Geographic Channel in 2006. Examines the events of September 11, 2001, tracing a time line that led up to the terrorist attacks and the subsequent government response. Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs HV6432.7 .I55 2006 DVD/Video Loan
7. Now with Bill Moyers. September 10, 2004. NOW analyzes the 9/11 Commission report and connects the dots of what happened that day and the warning signs leading up to it. This special episode highlights the agonizing close calls, missteps, and outright failures of two administrations and America's intelligence and security agencies in the months and years leading up to 9/11. Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs HV6432.7 .N14 2004 DVD/Video Loan
8. The Pentagon. Presents archival footage of the construction of the Pentagon, the largest office building in the world and its progress from the drawing board to today. Engineers reveal the reasons behind its unique shape and show off some of the innovative features that have helped the nearly 60- year-old headquarters handle the changing demands of its occupants over the decades. An all-access tour to rooms rarely seen by the public, and new footage documents the destruction of the September 11th terrorist attack. Internet Resources E173 .A729 Internet
9. Searching for the Roots of 9/11. "World is Flat" author Thomas L. Friedman tries to answer two of the most puzzling questions about 9/11: What drove 19 young, middle-class Muslim men to give up their lives to murder almost 3,000 people? And why does this violent act elicit so much support from millions of ordinary Muslims around the world? Cabell Media and Reserves DVDs HV6432.7 .T56 2003 DVD/Video Loan
10. Why the Towers Fell. A WGBH Boston presentation. For most people, the image of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was not only a scene of unforgettable horror, it was a moment of unimaginable consequence. This follows a blue ribbon team of forensic engineers as they begin searching for clues that would tell them why the towers fell. From detailed examination of the buildings original design to the relentless process of searching the scrap steel yards and Ground Zero itself for evidence. Cabell Media and Reserves Film and Videos TA219 .N68 2002 DVD/Video Loan
    

In celebration of Constitution Day Sept. 17, VCU Libraries recommends viewing "History of the Constitution," a DVD collection in 47 short segments, totaling two hours. Take a break and study our fundamental governance document in bits and pieces. As with all of the libraries collection of streaming videos, VCU eID patrons can watch anytime, anywhere with an Internet connection, headphones or speakers.

Throughout the week, VCU Libraries will feature a presentation and video montage on the large-screen monitors inside the entrances of James Branch Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences. Catch trivia and fun facts as you visit the library. The video montage features clips from the "Schoolhouse Rock" Preamble to a segment of Barbara Jordan's famous 1974 "Constitution Speech."

Also, Sept. 12-18, stop by the main desks at the libraries and request a free pocket-sized copy of the Constitution--in English or Spanish.

For more information see our Constitution Day Web site.

• Hours at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences
• Hours at James Branch Cabell Library

"It is important to save and preserve these artifacts and other items that comprise our material culture because they hold much symbolic, research and educational value," says Jodi L. Koste, archivist at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences.  

VCU Libraries has nominated two artifacts in need of preservation that tell significant stories about its special collections. They are:

• Matriculation Book of the Medical College of Virginia, 1838-1871. In this book all the names of students were recorded along with the student's address, preceptor and previous schools attended. Student entries are annotated when the individual graduated. The book is of high value for the information it provides on early students. It is also an interesting artifact because it includes the signatures of several Union soldiers who left their "mark" in the book during the occupation of the college's building after the Civil War.
• The office door of pioneering cartoonist Billy DeBeck featuring an oil painting of Barney Google and his equine sidekick. William Morgan DeBeck, 1890-1942, was a giant in the "comic strip" art form. To readers in the Jazz Age and Depression era, his characters were as beloved as Superman, Peanuts and Doonesbury became to later generations. Dialog from Barney Google became part of the cultural syntax. Catchphrases from his strips included: "Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies;" "Jeepers Creepers!" "Bus' Mah Britches!" and "Time's a'wastin'!" DeBeck invented the moniker "Google" for his character.
  

These two artifacts are examples of the content of VCU Libraries' special collections. Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences houses archives, artifacts, books, manuscripts, photographs, portraits and prints related to the history of health care in Virginia. The archives for the Medical College of Virginia campus are also located in the library on the MCV Campus. On the Monroe Park campus, James Branch Cabell Library is home to significant collections in comic and graphic arts, artist's books, modern Richmond history and culture, oral histories, literary manuscripts, and documentation of Central Virginia minority and activist communities.

To vote: www.vatop10artifacts.org/p/how-do-i-vote.html Voting is online and there are two ways to vote. One is to go to the photo album, create a free account in the Picasa platform, and "like" your favorite artifact. Or, you may prefer to choose from a drop-down box in a Google spreadsheet. Links to both voting methods.

If you have difficulty voting, send your choice by email to srobinson26@vcu.edu Use Internet Explorer.

Voting ends Sept. 20. Public voting will be considered by an independent panel of collections and conservation experts who will select the final Top 10. That list will be announced in November.

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Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts is a program of the Virginia Collections Initiative, which is a project of the Virginia Association of Museums, made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.     

VCU Libraries and its Friends of the Library present "9/11 Commemoration," a collection of installations and exhibits open from Tuesday, Sept. 6 through Friday, Sept. 23 at James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Sept. 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. beginning with remarks from contributors.

These programs explore September 11, 2001 before and after:

• Wall of Memories. Just inside the entryway of James Branch Cabell Library, patrons will find a blank wall where they may post brief reflections on September 11, 2001.
• World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd. Stephen Vitiello, associate professor in the VCU Department of Kinetic Imaging, supplies an installation of sound recordings that he made from the 91st floor of the first World Trade Center tower in 1999. Vitiello's sound installation will be housed on the first floor of Cabell Library in an intimate gallery space where patrons can experience the recordings in small groups. Originally presented at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the installation will also appear this year at MoMA PS1 as a part of the group exhibition "September 11."
• Construction Prints of the World Trade Center, 1967-1973. In the gallery space near the elevators on the first floor of Cabell Library will be detailed sketches commissioned to document the progress of construction of the World Trade Center from the foundation up to its significant position in the New York City skyline. These prints are on loan from VCU Friends of the Library members John Jay and Gail P. Schwartz and are by artists Nicholas Solovioff and Lili Réthi.
• Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11. Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives stages three exhibits: "Comic Artists Respond to September 11, 2001," "Artists' Books Commemorate September 11" and "Richmond and 9-11: 10 Years Ago." These exhibits draw on materials in three major collections (the Comic Arts Collection, the Book Art Collection, and university archives). The display is in the fourth floor gallery area.

This program, including the opening reception, is free and open to the public. Register online or by contacting Gregory G. Kimbrell at (804) 828-0593 or kimbrellgg@vcu.edu. Please also contact him for special accommodations. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks.

Event website 
About the artists
 

• Sign up for an iPad giveaway
• Sip Starbucks samples at a station located behind the Ask Us desk
• Sign up for a drawing to receive a poster of Rams basketball coach Shaka Smart
  
• Get bookmarks featuring Rams basketball coach Shaka Smart
• Sample foods from VCU Dining Services in Room 250
• Meet research and instructional services librarians and other library staff 
  
• Tour the building and get an overview of resources and services
• Join the Friends of the Library, on the fourth floor
• See Special Collections exhibitions in the fourth floor gallery
  
• Pick up information sheets at some tables
• Ask questions of librarians and Technology Services, Dining Services and Campus Learning Center representatives 
  

This workshop will introduce participants to tools for finding leisure reading materials at VCU Libraries. It will cover resources such as Book reMarks, Fiction Connection and free online tools to help readers discover authors and explore genres.

The event is free and open to all. No registration is required. 

• What level of help can you expect from libraries' staff?
• Where do you ask and how can you best word your question to elicit the best help? 
• What can you do yourself? 
• How much can you do online from your home or dorm room? 
• What library jargon terms should I learn?

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.

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.

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.

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.

For news reports and commentary on the case, visit these websites:

• Wall Street Journal
• New York Times
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Library Copyright Alliance

Grzimek's Animal Life encyclopedia is described by Library Journal as the most comprehensive and authoritative information source on animals ever published.This online version of the 17 volume print edition is available in a powerful new knowledge portal complete with accurate and detailed descriptions of every single animal genus in the animal kingdom, from the largest mammal to the smallest creature you can only see with the help of the microscope. Descriptions also covering endangered species and critically endangered species are written by notable experts in the field. Each description is enhanced with colored interactive maps and animations. MP3 files give in-depth account of physiological or behavioral activities of animals. These files can be downloaded to mobile devices or incorporated into scholarly papers and presentations.

Groups of animals covered are:

• Mammals
• Birds
  
• Reptiles & Amphibians
• Fishes
• Invertebrates

The database also includes sections on Biomes and Evolution. Grzimek's interface is user friendly, making it easy to search and returning displays that are attractive and informative.

Access Science is the premiere online science platform featuring fully searchable content of McGraw-Hill's encyclopedia of science and technology.

In this new generation of Access Science, vast amounts of information are organized to give fast, easy, and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. It features more than 8,500 online articles, plus:

• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill's yearbooks of science and technology
• Over 110,000 definitions from McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms
• 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson dictionary of scientific biography (Q141 .H88 2004eb)
• The latest news in science and technology from Science news and ScienCentral video

In addition to the continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos the content is enhanced with illustrations, animations and images.

Access Science uses the most up-to-date technology. Apart from the fast sophisticated search capability, it features RSS feeds, Flash animations, podcasts, video, and more. Weekly Q&A resolves queries posted by users.

SPIE Digital Library has been added to the VCU Libraries collections. Published by the International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE Digital Library gives unlimited access to the world's largest collection of optics and photonics research and provides user-friendly tools that save researchers' time. The database provides the broadest range of applied optics and photonics science and engineering papers anywhere.

Over 40,000 SPIE papers are cited in more than 20,000 high-technology U.S. patents and several thousands more in international patents.

• 6,000 volumes of conference proceedings and eight journals form the base of this digital library.
• Over 300,000 articles have been published from 1990 to 2010 and 17,000 new articles are added annually.
• Eight SPIE journals are featured: Optical engineering, Journal of biomedical optics, Journal of electronic imaging, Journal of micro/nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Journal of applied remote sensing, Journal of nanophotonics, SPIE reviews, and Journal of photonics for energy.

Benefits of the SPIE Digital Library include timely e-first publication, multimedia, CrossRef links, and RSS alerts.

World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service that offers an extensive array of translated news and information sources compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources. WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. New information is entered into WNC within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. Regions covered include:

• Africa (Central, East, North, Southern, West)
• Americas (Caribbean, Central, North, South, Antarctica)
• Asia (East, South, Southeast)
• Eurasia (Caucasus, Central, Russia)
• Europe (Balkans, Central, North, South)
• Middle East
• Oceania

WNC is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to monitor non-U.S. media sources.

Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library presents Zine Night. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library, room 401 on the fourth floor. The event will be divided into two sessions. During the first, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., participants will learn more about zines through an overview of the VCU Libraries zine collection. The second session, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., will be a collaborative zine workshop in which participants will create their own zine pages and bind them together into a zine that will be included in the VCU Libraries zine collection and scanned for participants to keep. Participants may attend one or both sessions. Light refreshments will be provided.

A zine, pronounced "zeen," is a group of folded, photocopied and distributed sheets of paper containing one's thoughts, art, rants and raves with little hope or desire for profit or fame. It is a creative outlet for anyone who wants to be heard. The VCU Libraries zine collection is an emerging collection currently containing over 400 zines from local and national creators. Personal zines, socio-political zines, literary zines, comic zines, LGBT zines and punk zines are just a sampling of genres in the collection.

Zine Night is sponsored by the Cabell Library Undergraduate Advisory Committee (CLUAC), the Richmond Zine Fest and the VCU Friends of the Library. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at http://www.vcuzinenight.eventbrite.com or the front desk of Special Collections and Archives. For further details and questions, please contact Gay Acompanado (or 804-828-1108).

Members of the VCU community can now check out a Kindle e-reader from the James Branch Cabell Library circulation service desk to read the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Kindle is updated each day with the morning's news and provides a 14-day archive of past issues. Patrons can borrow the Kindle for two hours. For more information, visit the circulation service desk.

designinform is a new online resource for researching the history of modern design and the applied arts. It contains three separate design databases on one platform: Design Abstracts Retrospective, Design ProFILES, and ReVIEW.

Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) is an abstracting and indexing service that covers many of the most important design and applied arts journals and annuals published during the twentieth century. DAR covers articles on all aspects of design, from architecture to embroidery.

Design ProFILES (DP) is a biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists, and architects. It includes profiles of every single designer, architect, craftsperson, studio, workshop, etc., whose work is discussed or illustrated in the journals and yearbooks covered by DAR.

ReVIEW contains full-text nineteenth and early twentieth century art journals. ReVIEW aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during this period.

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is now available through the VCU Libraries. This new online resource features over 60 medical book titles, drug information, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment programs, case files, diagnostic tools, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

The Clinical Library includes such well-known and trusted book titles as:

• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
• Hurst's The Heart
• Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
• Williams Obstetrics
• Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

The Lange Educational Library provides access to texts in basic science and clinical medicine, including titles in the Current Diagnosis & Treatment series.

AccessMedicine also includes these other online resources and features:

• Drug Database - Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology drug database with full length drug monographs, patient handouts in English and Spanish, and full-color photos of formulations
• Over 35,000 images, downloadable for presentations and educational use
• Q&A for Board Review - USMLE-formatted questions for Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3; self-assessment questions with answers and detailed explanations from Harrison's Online and other leading textbooks.
• Diagnostic Tests  and Diagnosaurus - laboratory and imaging tests from Nicoll's Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests and a differential diagnosis tool that links directly into AccessMedicine for more learning.
• Videos & Audio - online Grand Rounds, procedural videos, audio clips and podcasts, and weekly online medical updates.
• Health News - from The Center for Advancing Health, including "What Your Patients Are Reading Now" and "Systematic Reviews in the News."
• Practice Guidelines - from the latest edition of Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care.
• Case Files - clinical cases from Toy's best-selling series with discussions, clinical pearls, and review questions.
• Patient Education -- over 100 topics from Postgraduate Medicine that can be customized and printed for patients.
• Clerkship Corner - readings for students rotating through Internal Medicine.
• Curriculum Tools - available for program directors to design custom learning modules with resources for clinical rotations.
• MyAccessMedicine - a personal account to access the mobile version of the site, save and download images, email content and bookmark favorite sections.

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.

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.

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/

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

Funded by the VCU Libraries, this exciting project was made possible in part through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country.

Through the Collaborative's partnership with the Internet Archive, all items were scanned from cover-to-cover and in full color. You can choose from a variety of formats, page through a book choosing the "read online" option, download the PDF, or search the full text version.

Yearbooks in the collection are:

• The Wigwam (RPI, 1931-1955)
• Cobblestone (RPI, 1956-1968; VCU, 1969-1973)
• Cobblestone yearbook, 1956-1973 (VCU, commemorative volume issued in 1974)
• Commonwealth (VCU, 1979-1980)
• The Rampages (VCU, 1989-1990)
• The X-Ray (MCV, 1913-2010)

There were no VCU yearbooks from 1974 to 1978 or from 1981-1988. After 1990, the VCU yearbook was no longer published. The MCV yearbook ceased publication in the spring of 2010.

Alumni magazines in the collection are:

• VCU magazine (1971-1993): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
• Shafer Court connections (1994-2010): alumni magazine for the Monroe Park Campus
• The Scarab (1952-2010): alumni magazine for the MCV Campus

To view the collections, go to http://www.archive.org/details/virginiacommonwealthuniversity. From there, you can browse by subject or keyword to get to the exact publication you want. Additional locally digitized publications are available fromVCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.

   

VCU's predecessors were the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia. Explore the story of RPI in A History of the Richmond Professional Institute, written by Dr. Henry Hibbs, longtime leader of the school. Published for the RPI Foundation in 1973, the heavily illustrated book traces the development of RPI from its beginnings as the Richmond School of Social Economy in 1917 to its affiliation with the College of William and Mary in 1939, ending with the school's consolidation with MCV in 1968 to become Virginia Commonwealth University. 

A History of the Richmond Professional Institute is part of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.

• Scopus - an extensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources
• Access Medicine - more than 60 ebook titles, case files, diagnostic tools and self-assessment questions
• MD Consult - Medical Education eBooks - browse or search in a selection of leading textbooks

The Richmond Comprehensive Planning Slide Collection is part of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.

What Do I Read Next?

This workshop will introduce participants to tools for finding leisure reading materials at VCU Libraries. It will cover such resources as Book reMarks, Fiction Connection, and various free online tools to help readers discover authors and explore genres. No advance registration is necessary.

Please contact John Glover for further information (828-6555).

A new online database, Index Islamicus, is now available through the VCU Libraries. With coverage for the last hundred years, current, and future scholarship, all aspects of Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world are indexed for the arts, history, literature, medicine, politics, religion, and sciences. Updated annually by the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Index Islamicus is searchable by author, journal, and title. Over 3,000 journals are indexed, as well as book reviews, conference proceedings, and scholarly monographs.

This workshop will offer an introduction to finding and using images from VCU Libraries digital image collections and from other resources. In addition to general help with understanding image copyright and citation, this session will cover image search engines, free image resources, and digital image databases available to the VCU community, including ARTstor, AP Images, and other resources.

Please contact Kristina Keogh (828-6339) for more information.

In 1993, Allen Iverson was a Bethel High School sports star who, at the beginning of his young career, faced a trial that divided Hampton, Virginia, along racial lines. Oscar nominee, Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to his hometown to explore issues of race, celebrity and sports for ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series. (60 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.

Cabell Library now has a self-service public fax machine, located near the copier/printer corral on the first floor. The cost is $1.50 for the first page and $1.00 for each additional page; international rates are higher. Payment can be made with a credit or debit card. Assistance is available to users at any time via a telephone that connects directly to the fax vending company's customer service helpline.

On Tuesday, November 9th, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., VCU Libraries will present a new workshop for faculty (but open to all) entitled "Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty." The workshop will be conducted by Dan Ream, VCU librarian and past president of the VCU Faculty Senate.

As journal subscription costs have increased dramatically, fewer and fewer libraries can afford every journal that is needed, including some that are considered prestigious and essential. Faculty worldwide, especially in the sciences but also increasingly in the social sciences and humanities, have responded by creating and publishing their research in open access, peer-reviewed journals that charge no fee to their readers. Faculty Senates from Harvard to Berkeley to the University of Virginia have endorsed open access publishing for their faculty. Perhaps VCU's Faculty Senate may some day do so as well.

This one-hour session will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline, as well as discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.

This workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 on the third floor of Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary. Address questions to Dan Ream, or call 828-6545 for more information.

On Wednesday, November 10th, VCU Libraries is offering two identical forty minute workshops for anyone interested in learning how to navigate the new interface and gaining hands-on experience searching PsycINFO.

Participants will learn to:

• create a complex search using a variety of fields
• limit results to a specific age group, population, publication type, research methodology
• create a MY PsycNET account to save successful searches and set up email alerts when new records are added to this search

Both workshops will be held on the third floor of Cabell Library in room 319. No advance registration is necessary.

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:40 p.m.
Time: 03:00 PM - 03:40 p.m.

Address questions to Nita Bryant, Library Liaison for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, or call 828-6651 for more information.

Register online for the lecture
Register online for the tour

The VCU Libraries, Technology Services, and the Center for Clinical and Translational Research present the 2010 Research Services Day on Thursday, October 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Tompkins-McCaw Library. This event will highlight the vast array of resources available at VCU to support your research.

Seating limited; advance registration encouraged. Register online, via e-mail, or by calling 828-0017.

For more information, please visit the Research Services Day Website.

The VCU Medical Center is proud to host the 2010 Cybersecurity Fair in recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month on Wednesday, October 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tompkins-McCaw Library. Join us as VCU's security experts, along with corporate partners, present demos and share their experiences that range from Social Networking and Anytime, Anywhere Secure Connectivity for Healthcare Professionals to data breaches and Computer Forensics in Healthcare. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy a light lunch, view exciting presentations, and enter a chance to win a smart device of your own! Seating limited; advance registration encouraged. Register online, via e-mail, or by calling 828-0017. Attendees must attend at least one session to be eligible for lunch and the raffle.

For more information, please visit the Cybersecurity Fair website.

Research Guides covering a wide variety of subjects are now available for most hand-held devices through a streamlined, easy-to-use mobile interface. Use these guides on your device, or bookmark VCU Libraries Mobile to quickly access all of VCU Libraries' mobile-enabled services, including building hours, library events, and databases.

Writing a novel is tough; finding an agent who believes in it and an editor willing to launch it--harder still. Virginia Commonwealth University welcomes 2010 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award winner Victor Lodato; his agent, David McCormick; and his editor at Farrar, Straus Giroux, Courtney Hodell, as they trace the journey of Lodato's masterful Mathilda Savitch from first draft to literary attention-getter.

The reading and book discussion are free and open to the public, as are the book signing and reception immediately following. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call Antonia FD Vassar at (804) 827-1165 prior to October 31, 2010.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, presented by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, James Branch Cabell Library Associates, the VCU Friends of the Library, VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College,and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

Most items are $2 or less, and we now accept payment by RamBucks, as well as credit card, cash, and check. All proceeds from the Friends of the Library Book Sale help to fund VCU Libraries' programs, collections, and lectures.

2010 Sale Hours

• Monday, October 25: Noon - 8 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 26: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 27: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Special Half-Price Sale

• Thursday, October 28: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Friday, October 29: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Preview Sale for Friends of the Library Donors

• Monday, October 25: 9 am - Noon
• (Please present your Friends donor card for admission to the preview sale.)

For more information about the Friends of the Library Book Sale, please contact Antonia FD Vassar (804-827-1165).

On Friday, October 15th, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., VCU Libraries will present a new workshop for faculty (but open to all) entitled "Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty." The workshop will be conducted by Dan Ream, VCU librarian and past president of the VCU Faculty Senate.

As journal subscription costs have increased dramatically, fewer and fewer libraries can afford every journal that is needed, including some that are considered prestigious and essential. Faculty worldwide, especially in the sciences but also increasingly in the social sciences and humanities, have responded by creating and publishing their research in open access, peer-reviewed journals that charge no fee to their readers. Faculty Senates from Harvard to Berkeley to the University of Virginia have endorsed open access publishing for their faculty. Perhaps VCU's Faculty Senate may some day do so as well.

This one-hour session will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline, as well as discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.

This workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 on the third floor of Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary. Address questions to Dan Ream, or call 828-6545 for more information.

View award-winning, short films, documentaries, and animation from the VCU Libraries collections (about 72 minutes).

• Le Revolution de Crabes (The Revolution of the Crabs), France, 5:04
• Birds, UK, 10:00
• The Commoners (Starlings in the U.S.), USA, 12:30
• The Discipline of De (William Borroughs), USA, 9:00
• Bad Head Day, Mexico, 1:17
• La Vie dun Chien (The Life of a Dog), USA, 13:00
• The Boy with No Name, UK, 6:00
• Death to Tinman, USA, 9:00
• Video 300, Germany, 5:00

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.

Walk-In Research& Writing Clinics
James Branch Cabell Library
Multipurpose Room, room 250, Second Floor
Co-sponsored by VCU Libraries and the Writing Center

• Tues, Oct 12, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Wed, Oct 13, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Tues, Oct 19, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Wed, Oct 20, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Tues, Oct 26, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Wed, Oct 27, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Tues, Nov 2, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Wed, Nov 3, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Tues, Nov 9, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Wed, Nov 10, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Tues, Nov 16, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Wed, Nov 17, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Tues, Nov 30, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Wed, Dec 1, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Tues, Dec 7, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Wed, Dec 8, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Researchers and writers are encouraged to stop by anytime the clinics are open and are encouraged to bring laptops. For more information, visit the Clinic Website.

For a list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

For a list of writing oriented workshops, visit the Writing Center Workshops page.

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It also includes a suite of software tools that enable users to view and analyze images. In this workshop, you will learn how to search and browse the ARTstor collection of images, create an account and manage folders, create and manage image groups, and download and use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer.

Please contact Kristina Keogh (804-828-6339) to RSVP or for more information.

Software installed on the laptops includes Windows XP, MS Office 2007, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, SAS and SPSS, myitlab, iTunes, CutePDF Creator, and Photoshop Elements. The netbooks have Windows 7 Starter Edition, MS Office 2007, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, and CutePDF Creator.

Laptops are loaned for four hours at a time, and borrowing is limited to students and faculty at VCU with a valid VCUCard. If you return a laptop late, you will be responsible for overdue fines ($10 per hour), so be sure to bring your laptop back before it is due. A limited number of headphones and power cords are also available; just ask at the desk. The laptop loan service is provided by VCU Libraries and VCU Technology Services.

A panel discussion exploring Hispanic immigration to Virginia will be held at the Library of Virginia on Sept. 30th.

Also on display are two of the first Spanish language newspapers to be published in Virginia. Complete runs of the newspapers El Eco de Virginia and El Sol were donated to VCU Libraries in 2006. The issues were microfilmed and added to the Virginia State Newspaper Project. The newspapers can be accessed in Cabell Library's Special Collections and Archives department or on microfilm on the third floor of the library.

Hispanic Heritage Month began in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded to a 30-day period under President Ronald Reagan in 1988. September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of the independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- all of which declared independence in 1821. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.

Please visit the James Branch Cabell Library's exhibit area, located on the fourth floor of the library, to view this exhibit and others that highlight many of the diverse collections housed in the VCU Libraries.

• European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945
• Visual arts in all media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology and classical studies, antiques and architectural history, and related fields
• Scholarship from at least 500 core journals, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs.

I. Web of Science, Biosis Previews & Zoological Record

When: September 22, Noon - 2 p.m.
Where:Commons Theater - University Student Commons

Learn how to navigate Web of Science, which now includes Conference Proceedings. Create citation reports and track citations over time and publications. Learn how Web of Science provides basic statistics such as average cites and h-index. Also view demonstrations of Biosis Previews and Zoological Record.

Lunch is provided.

RSVP required to Ronke Lawal (or call: 804-828-8739) by September 20.

II. Science Direct, SciVerse, Engineering Village & Reaxys

When: Thursday October 7, 2010, 10:30 - 3:30
Where: Virginia Rooms A-D University Student Commons

Get updates on Science Direct, Engineering Village and Reaxys databases. View demonstrations and familiarize yourself with the new Science Direct Interface - SciVerse.

10:30am -11:30 Updates and search features of SciVerse, Science Direct, and Engineering Village
12 noon - 1:00pm Demystifying Reaxys (Formerly Beilstein)
1:30-3:30 Demonstrations of all Databases

Brunch/Lunch is provided

RSVP required to Ronke Lawal (or call: 804-828-8739) by September 30.

Please indicate which session you wish to attend.

Also, throughout the week of September 13th, VCU Libraries will feature a presentation and video montage on the large-screen monitors inside the entrances of Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library. Catch trivia and fun facts as you visit the library! The video montage features a variety of clips, from the "Schoolhouse Rock" Preamble to a segment of Barbara Jordan's 1974 "Constitution Speech."

Last, but not least, from September 13th-17th stop by the Cabell Library reference desk or the Tompkins-McCaw Library service desk for a free pocket-sized copy of the Constitution. While supplies last!

For more information and links to Constitution resources see our Constitution Day Web site.

New to graduate school? Short on time to search for the best online resources to find scholarly resources, images, and dissertations? This workshop will provide information on good places to start your research, tools to manage your citations, tips on how electronic resources work at VCU, and suggestions for how to use free online resources such as Google Books and Google Scholar.

For more information, please contact John Glover or Kristina Keogh

American Library Association Promotes Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week
Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 25 - October 2, 2009

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion, even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library is named for noted Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Cabell's "Jurgen" (1919) was considered pornographic by some and was banned soon after its publication. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Read more about Cabell and the Banning of Jurgen.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores. Banned Books Week is also endorsed by the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress. Learn more about Banned Book Week from the American Library Association, including the list of the ten most challenged book titles for 2009, and a section titled "what you can do" to help fight censorship.

In observation of Constitution Day, VCU Libraries and University Student Commons & Activities (USC&A Programs) present the 2009 HBO film "Shouting fire: Stories from the edge of free speech." This documentary examines the issue of free speech versus national security in a post-9/11 world. Through a series of interviews, this film explores these issues from both sides. The ultimate question formulated becomes "is all speech equally free?" For more information on this film, visit the HBO Web site.

Register online. Visit VCU Libraries events page for more information on other upcoming events and workshops.

You asked for it -- you got it!

Beginning on September 7, 2010, you will be able to reserve the 28 group study rooms in Cabell Library. These rooms -- on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors -- can accommodate groups from two to ten members, and provide space and technology resources for collaborative work. Rooms can be reserved for up to two hours at a time, three times a week, and up to fourteen days in advance. Use our online reservation system to view the calendar and submit a reservation for the room you want to use.

For more details, visit the Cabell Library Group Study Room page or ask a library staff member at any service desk.

VCU Libraries and the Monroe Park Campus Student Government Association present this year's first Cabell Life Forum on Thursday, September 9th, at 5:00 p.m. in the second floor Learning Commons. The Forum will be held in the Multipurpose Room. The Cabell Life Forum is an opportunity to bring questions and concerns about Cabell Library to library administrators. We want to hear directly from students, so bring your comments, suggestions, and questions. Refreshments will be provided.

The Cabell Learning Commons is a joint project of VCU Libraries and VCU Technology Services and was funded by the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Visit the Learning Commons Web page for photographs and more information.

PsycINFO (same content that was previously available via EBSCO)
PsycARTICLES (all full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles)
PsycBOOKS (contains the full text of chapters/books including APA titles, classic books, and the Encyclopedia of Psychology)
PsycEXTRA (indexes the gray literature in psychology and the behavioral sciences; good source for emerging research)
PsycCRITIQUES (a weekly release of book and film reviews, including popular films; a good source for teaching materials)

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. 

Mon, Aug. 23
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Wed, Aug. 25
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Thurs, Aug. 26
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Fri, Aug. 27
11:00 a.m.
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Sat, Aug. 28
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Sun, Aug. 29
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Mon, Aug 30
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Tues, Aug 31
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Wed, Sept. 1
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Fri, Sept. 3
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The VCU Libraries has released an important new addition to the VCU Libraries Digital Collections: The VCU Board of Visitors Minutes. The fully searchable PDFs are the official minutes of the Board and its Executive Committee, from the very first meeting on April 23, 1968, up to June 26, 2007. Minutes from 2007 to the present are currently available on the Board's Web site and will be incorporated into the library's collection at a later date.

VCU Libraries now subscribes to a suite of databases from COS (formerly Community of Science) that will help you locate funding sources, fellow researchers, and upcoming conferences related to your scholarly interests.

COS Funding Opportunities provides current information on over 25,000 grants, fellowships, and other awards offered by a wide variety of domestic and international funding sources, including federal and regional governments, foundations, professional societies, associations, and corporations. COS Funding Opportunities is the world's largest source of information about available funding for all types of projects in all disciplines. It is updated daily and can be searched by sponsor, award amount, deadline, eligibility, activity location, funding type and area of interest.

COS Workbench is a personal Web-based workspace that allows users to set up a profile, access other COS databases, save searches and receive funding alerts. With the COS Funding Alert service, subscribers receive a weekly e-mail customized with a list of funding opportunities based on previously specified criteria. You must first register to take advantage of the Workbench features.

COS Scholar Universe provides authoritative information on more than 1 million active researchers, along with affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at four-year colleges and doctoral universities. Users can discover subject experts, potential collaborators, peers to review articles or proposals, former colleagues, and mentors. Each scholar's profile is editorially reviewed and verified for accuracy.

Papers Invited contains calls for papers, presentations, and posters from conferences around the world, plus news about special editions of journals. E-mail alerts are available for new announcements. Find opportunities to present or publish your research and reach your scholarly goals.

COS research services are designed to help faculty, students and researchers at every level. The tools provide easy and comprehensive ways for all researchers to fund, connect, and publish. Tutorials are available online to learn more about any of these COS databases.

• political stability
• economic activity
• insurgent and military groups
• transfer of security responsibility
• military operations
• the Afghan National Security Forces
• the Afghan presidential elections
• human rights
• reconstruction and development

Learn more about VCU Libraries government documents collections. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

• Wednesday, June 2, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, June 8, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 16, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, June 22, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 30, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 6, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 14, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 20, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 28, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, Aug 3, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, Aug 11, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Researchers and writers are encouraged to stop by anytime the clinics are open. For a list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

The VCU Libraries has released a new addition to its Digital Collections: The First 125 Years of the Medical College of Virginia. MCV celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1963, culminating in the publication of this volume. Issued as hard- and soft-back publications in the college's bulletin series, the 96-page photo history, largely the work of Thelma Vaine Hoke, was the college's first full-length history. Hoke pulled photographs, letters, documents, reports, and publications for the book from a rich collection of historical materials gathered and preserved by James Ralph McCauley, who served as secretary-treasurer for the college and secretary for the Board of Visitors from 1902 until his death in 1950.

This and other works may be viewed at the site of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections.

Resource Guides on a number of different topics are available online from VCU Libraries. Ask Us if you need research assistance on this or any other topic.

Tompkins-McCaw Library is hosting the traveling exhibit "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine" through June 26 in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room. 

This exhibition, using materials from the National Library of Medicine, explores Harry Potter's world and its roots in Renaissance magic, science, and medicine. In 1997, British author J. K. Rowling introduced the world to Harry Potter and a literary phenomenon was born. Millions of readers have followed Harry to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he discovers his heritage, encounters new plants and animals, and perfects his magical abilities. Although a fantasy story, the magic in the Harry Potter books is partially based on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western science, including alchemy, astrology, and natural philosophy. Incorporating the work of several 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, the seven-part series examines important ethical topics such as the desire for knowledge, the effects of prejudice, and the responsibility that comes with power. More information is available by visiting the official exhibit Website.

Visit the VCU Libraries Website to view the complete list of new new digital collections.

VCU Libraries now subscribes to Natural Standard, a database of high quality, evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine. The database consists of comprehensive monographs on thousands of herbs, supplements, foods and treatment regimens. Monographs are developed from published scientific data and undergo blinded editorial and peer review by research experts. Validated rating scales accompany each monograph and reflect the quality of available evidence. References include links to PubMed abstracts where available. Comparative efficacy charts indicate which therapies have scientific support for treating or preventing specific medical conditions.

Monographs are available in different reading levels for healthcare professionals and consumers. Special features include an interactions checker, medical calculators, podcasts and a news blog. To learn more about Natural Standard, consult the User's Guide or view the demo.

General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from about 300 English language periodicals dating back to 1984. Subjects covered include biology, physics, genetics, medicine, health, mathematics, oceanography, astronomy, botany, zoology, and nutrition.The database also features the full text of 100 selected periodicals from 1995. The full text is generously illustrated with graphs, charts, diagrams, and photos that convey an abundance of scientific information.The plain language subject headings and subject thesaurus give non-specialists access to the latest scientific and technical developments. Students and the entire VCU community will find this easy-to-use database very valuable.

Please direct all questions and comments to Ibironke Lawal (804-828-8739).

The mandate would apply to research from all federal agencies with extramural research budgets over $100 million. Agencies that fall into this category include the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and others.

The National Institutes of Health has had a similar policy for the last two years that requires deposit of final manuscripts into PubMed Central within one year of publication.

For more information and updates on FRPAA, visit the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. The full text of the bill, along with a summary of actions and status, can be viewed through the THOMAS legislative information system.

Library Lite All Nite
24/5 Hours
April 24 - May 14, 2010
James Branch Cabell Library

The James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week during exams. This expanded service is called Library Lite All Nite.

From April 24 through May 14, Cabell doors will open at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday and remain open until our regular Friday evening closing time at 6:00 p.m. Saturday hours will remain unchanged during Library Lite All Nite -- 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

This service will provide 24/5 access to the library building and offer circulation services, individual study on the third and fourth floors, group study on the first and second floors, and computerized resources, including the library catalog, databases, Internet access, and Microsoft Office applications. The B-8 Computer Lab will also be open during the 24/5 hours.

Sunday through Thursday nights, all patrons entering James Branch Cabell Library after 10 p.m. are required to show VCUCards to gain admittance. A complete listing of operational hours for Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library is available online.

For more information and a complete listing of available services, please visit the Library Lite All Nite Web site.

Wednesday, April 14
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons
Monroe Park Campus

Thursday, April 15
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Tompkins-McCaw Library
Medical College of Virginia Campus

Find more information on the Web.

The Black Studies Center (from ProQuest) -- providing a wealth of primary and secondary sources for the study of the Black experience in the United States, Africa, and around the world -- is now available from the VCU Libraries. This resource not only provides the vital foundation for in-depth research, but also reflects Black contributions in virtually every discipline, from medicine to education to economics. The lived experience of individuals across diverse times and places is placed in the larger contexts of political, economic, religious, and social movements and upheavals throughout history, from the ancient to the modern world. The struggles of individuals against the forces of history are shown in full detail.

At the heart of the Black Studies Center are four comprehensive resources:

• Schomburg Studies on the Black experience (from records in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library), which includes topical overviews by leading scholars in Black Studies, as well as dissertations, articles, book chapters, reference materials, bibliographies, and a multimedia library that is fully searchable.
• The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975 (the most influential African-American newspaper of its time in the U.S.), reporting on such transformative events as the "Great Migration," in which 1.5 million African-Americans left the segregated South for the industrial North, arguing vigorously for anti-lynching legislation, and publishing noted Black intellectuals and writers, including Langston Hughes, Walter White, and early work by Gwendolyn Brooks.
• The International Index to Black Periodicals - Full Text (with new documents added regularly) provides multidisciplinary coverage of cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues that have shaped Black history across the world.
• The Black Literature Index (with over 70,000 citations), allowing users to locate records of fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in 100 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827 and 1940.
  

With multimedia, historical timelines, glossary of terms, and extensive contextual materials, Black Studies Center makes rare and unique primary sources available to researchers who can find connections and trace the influences that illuminate the past, present, and future of the Black experience.

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VCU Libraries presents this year's second Cabell Life Forum on Thursday, April 15, at 5:00 p.m. in the John Mapp Graduate Study and Reading Room at Cabell Library. Library staff will discuss plans for new study spaces and upgrades in technology, preserving core services during tight budget times, access to e-books, and more. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Mary Ellen Spencer.

The VCU Libraries announces its latest addition to the VCU Libraries Digital Collections: Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond. This 40-page directory by Robert W. Waitt, Jr. was originally published in 1964 by the Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee. It gives alphabetical listings of the general hospitals in Richmond during the Civil War, as well as private residences, commercial buildings, churches, and parks temporarily used as hospitals. Several of the pages are illustrated with photographs and maps.

View this and other online publications at the VCU Libraries Digital Collections site.

Current resource participants include VCU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), VCU's Safe Zone, Richmond Triangle Players, and ROSMY. OMSA, Richmond Triangle Players and ROSMY have also provided statements describing what diversity means to their communities. Brochures are available on a variety of LGBTQI topics.

Organized in 1974, the Gay Alliance of Students was denied registration as a campus organization by the Board of Visitors at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Board argued that the existence of the group would, among other things "increase the opportunity for homosexual contacts." The students brought a suit against VCU. In October 1976, the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, ordered VCU to give the group full recognition as an official student organization. That ruling entitled other gay and lesbian student organizations across the south to be recognized by state universities. Today, there are two student gay organizations at VCU - the Sexual Minority Student Alliance and Queer Action.

The materials for this part of the exhibit were donated in 2007 to VCU Libraries' Special Collections and Archives by Walter Foery, one of the founding members of the Gay Alliance of Students.

Learn more by visiting VCU's Diversity page or VCU Libraries Diversity Resource Guide. For suggestions on future diversity displays or events, contact the co-chairs of VCU Libraries Diversity Work Group.

Visit us on your portable device at the new VCU Libraries Mobile site. Quickly find out what hours the libraries are open and how many computers are available. Search more than 40 mobile-optimized scholarly databases to find journal articles. In addition, you can access mobile tools for searching other libraries (WorldCat Mobile) and managing your citations (RefWorks Mobile).

Tell us what you think and what other features you would like to see developed for VCU Libraries Mobile.

Surveys will be administered once a month at each library for a two hour time period. The dates and times have been randomly selected and will vary each month.

During the survey, you will be given a short form to complete during your visit. The online survey will appear when you select library resources from the VCU Libraries Web site.

If you have questions or comments about the survey, please contact Nia Rodgers at the James Branch Cabell Library.

For more information, visit the official exhibit Website.

• One free RefWorks account

• 200 MB of file attachment storage
• Use of RefShare to share your folder(s) or account
• Free Web-based training
• Technical support from RefWorks staff

You will create a new account at the RefWorks Alumni Site and transfer your references from your VCU RefWorks account. Your references should transfer intact, including any customization you may have done to the records or to your account. The Get It @ VCU button will not transfer as you will not have access to VCU Libraries electronic resources after you leave VCU.

To request participation in the RefWorks Alumni Program, submit an Ask Us e-mail, or contact the RefWorks Administrators for VCU Libraries:

• Marilyn Scott, James Branch Cabell Library, 804-828-9049
• Alan Williams, Tompkins-McCaw Library, 804-828-1592

VCU Libraries and University Student Commons & Activities present the 2008 film "License to Thrive: Title IX at 35." Film description from their Web site: "In June of 1972, Congress passed a piece of legislation called Title IX of the Education Amendments, to provide educational access and opportunity for women and young girls throughout the United States. Although most closely associated with sports, no other piece of legislation since the 19th Amendment has been more crucial to opening doors and creating leadership opportunities for women in all arenas, including education, science, math, finance, entertainment, the arts, business, law, and politics." More information on this film available at the "Women Make Movies" Web site.

Please register online.

For a list of library events and instruction classes on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

"Attending the Eichmann Trial: Only Yesterday ... a Half Century Ago"
Presented by Dr. Jack D. Spiro
Thursday, March 25, 2010
7:30 p.m.
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue

"I must inform the Kenesset that a short time ago one of the greatest of the Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israel security services and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel ..." Fifty years ago, on May 23, 1960, David Ben-Gurion read these words before an astonished Israeli parliament.

Dr. Spiro will discuss how his personal experiences in attending the Eichmann trial and his reactions to its aftermath appear in a larger contextual setting five decades later. What he learned ... what he can't forget and wants to remember fifty years after Eichmann's capture and trial when every fourth citizen of Israel was a Holocaust survivor. What was the dramatic difference in the world's response to the Holocaust before and after trial? Does this wretched accomplice to mass murder help us understand the appalling recurrence of genocide in our own day?

The lecture 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) 827-1163 prior to March 23, 2009. A reception will be held immediately following the lecture.

The 25th Annual Brown-Lyons Lecture is 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.

Dr. Jack D. Spiro holds the Harry Lyons Distinguished Chair in Judaic Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also director of the VCU Center for Judaic Studies the VCU Center for Judaic Studies and editor of its online publication, Menorah Review. He has earned two doctorates from the Hebrew Union College and the University of Virginia. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over twenty books and written over forty articles.

Resource Guides on a number of different topics are available online from VCU Libraries. Ask Us if you need research assistance on this or any other topic.

Need a break from school stress? Looking for a creative outlet that does not involve writing papers? The Cabell Library Undergraduate Advisory Committee, CLUAC, is hosting a book art workshop on March 9, 2010. Gay Acompanado from Special Collections and Archives will bring sample book art for background and inspiration; CLUAC member, Christine Stoddard, will lead the hands-on portion of the workshop. Join us for this fun, creative break from classes. No art experience required. All supplies provided.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Third Floor Conference Room
Cabell Library

Space is limited. Register online today. Find out more about what book art is and view examples on the VCU Libraries Web page.

The lecture will be shown in room 2-010 of Tompkins-McCaw Library. Find more information and register online.

This exhibit is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and is part of an ongoing effort to showcase the talents of VCU's student, faculty, and alumni artists within the VCU Libraries, and to foster partnerships between the VCU Libraries and other VCU departments. For additional information about the VCU Friends of the Library, visit us online.

The exhibit consists of two monitors located on the first floor of James Branch Cabell Library. The first monitor features a photography slideshow with images created by both MFA and BFA photography students. The work displays a wide range of conceptual approaches through various photographic methods that include studio portraits, installation based photography, and digital experimentation.

Works include:

• Aura - Stephanie Benassi, MFA
• Celdas - Alma Leiva, MFA
• Experiences with Sports in College - John Cameron, BFA
• Monuments - Eric Carlson, BFA
• Various Works - Griffin Davis, BFA
• Various Works - William Douglas, BFA
• Various Works - Courtney Mannion, BFA
• Various Works - Harrison Moenich, BFA
• Windows - Patrick Phillips, BFA
• Charleston at Night - Kaitlynn Slaughter, BFA
• Lady Athletes - Drew Smith, BFA
• The Modern Jew - Drew Smith, BFA

The second monitor features short films and videos created by undergraduate BFA Film and Photography students from 2007-2010. The body of work was selected from various courses which include filmmaking I & II, Digital Filmmaking I & II, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental Filmmaking. A number of the shorts do contain a soundtrack, but are exhibited here silent for Cabell Library.

Works include:

• Deus Ex Maria (16mm) - Kaila Bell, BFA
• Vex (DV) - Harrison Moenich, BFA
• Bananananana (Hand-drawn Animation) - Sam Song, BFA
• Wayward (Super 16mm) - William D. Bryant & Dustin T. West, BFA
• Rain Storm (Animation) - Anne Schermerhorn, BFA
• Das Tooth (DV) - Paul Hugins, BFA
• Ocular (Archival DV) - Leo Maco, BFA
• Williamsdale (HD Video) - Ben Rinehardt, BFA
• Blue Coma Infinity (Archival DV) - Doug Lawlor, BFA
• Luray (Super 16mm) - Chris Underwood & Mark Waldhauser, BFA
• AWA's (HD Video) - Abdoulaye Fall, BFA
• Eggy (Animation) - John Sizemore & Mairin Hart, BFA
• Timeless (16mm) - Erin Young, BFA
• If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (DV) - Dena Sussman, BFA
• Untitled (DV) - Mathew Farris, BFA
• Mega Robot vs. Giant Fish (CG Animation) - Chris Underwood, BFA
• Strangers (16mm) - Sam Song, BFA

For more information, please contact Yuki Hibben, Kristina Keogh, or Kimberly Separ.
 

Wednesday, February 10
Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America
How can a seemingly healthy 44-year-old suddenly drop dead from a massive heart attack? His case is not unusual, as the 90-minute documentary explains. More than half of all people who die of heart disease succumb suddenly without warning--and the other half have the disease lurking in their bodies for many years before it strikes. There is no cure, but doctors are making remarkable discoveries about the disease: where it starts, how it occurs, and what that means for us. http://bit.ly/hiddenepidemic

Wednesday, March 10
Supersize Me
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once, and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American are now overweight. Spurlock's grueling diet spirals him into a metamorphosis that will make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac. http://bit.ly/supersizme

Wednesday, April 7
Pandemic: Facing AIDS
Narrated by Elton John, Pandemic: Facing AIDS is a documentary series of five half-hour films by Rory Kennedy that takes a unique look at the worldwide AIDS epidemic. The dimensions of the AIDS pandemic are catastrophic. During the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has spread across social, political and cultural barriers, affecting people in every corner of the globe. Experts predict that in ten years, 112 million people may be HIV-positive, yet it is a disease whose transmission is entirely preventable. http://bit.ly/facingaids

Wednesday, May 5
Struggling in Silence: Physician Depression and Suicide
Struggling in Silence conveys the impact of physician suicide on families, patients and communities through the stories of two physicians lost to suicide. It also shares the accounts of those living with mood disorders: a freshman medical student with depression and anxiety who considered dropping out, a surgeon diagnosed with depression who overcame stigmatizing attitudes and policies within his state and profession, and a prominent neurologist whose bipolar disorder introduced her to new areas of research and patient care. http://bit.ly/silentstruggle

The iPoll Databank provides researchers a wealth of survey data. iPoll contains over a half-million questions from surveys conducted by over 150 academic, commercial, and media organizations such as the Gallup Organization, Pew Research Associates, the Wall Street Journal, AARP, the ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and NBC News Organizations, and others. iPoll includes survey data back to 1935 and is updated daily. A sample list of topics covered by the Databank includes:

• Crime
• Drugs and Alcohol
• Family
• Education
• Civil Liberties
• Minorities
• Democracy
• Environment
• Social Capital
• Terrorism
• Energy
• Abortion
• Welfare and Poverty
• Women

Additional information about iPoll is available from The Roper Center. Learn more about data and statistics resources available from the VCU Libraries. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

The Walk-In Research and Writing Clinics at Cabell Library are designed for students with research and/or writing questions. Anytime the clinic is open, a librarian or Writing Center consultant can provide one-on-one assistance to find library resources or assist in the writing process. These clinics are targeted to students in ENGL 200 and UNIV 112, and open to anyone working on a research paper. Attending these open, hands-on clinics can help students save time and stress!

Walk-In Research & Writing Clinics
James Branch Cabell Library
Library Instruction Classroom, Room 319

• Mon, Feb 8, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.*
• Mon, Feb 15, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Tue, Feb 16, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.*
• Wed, Feb 24, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.


• Wed, Mar 3, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.*
• Thu, Mar 4, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Mon, Mar 8, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.*
• Wed, Mar 10, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Tue, Mar 23, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Mon, Mar 29, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.*
• Tue, Mar 30, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.


• Wed, Apr 7, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.*
• Thu, Apr 8, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Wed, Apr 14, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Mon, Apr 19, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Tue, Apr 20, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Mon, Apr 26, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Thu, Apr 29, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

*Technology Services Classroom, Room 320

Researchers and writers are encouraged to stop by anytime the clinics are open. For a list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.
 

• In Mintel, look for the Economy in Crisis section under what's hot. In addition to brief news items, there are full text market research reports on topics like the Budget Shopper, DIY in a Down Economy, or Weddings in the Recession.
• Track economy recovery with daily updates Dow Jones Factiva. Look for the Financial Crisis page on the News Pages drop down list.
• ABI/Inform recently added a number of new subject terms, including the American Recovery & Reinvestement Act 2009-US, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008-US, food prices, and many more--all retrospectively indexed so researchers can compare similar events though time. You can also search with recession, bailouts, or economic crisis as your keywords.
• Try the term financial crisis in Business Source Complete, and try a keyword search with global financial crisis 2008-2009 in the library catalog for books on the topic.

You can access all of these resources from the VCU Libraries homepage. Look for the Databases A-Z list or the Catalog search box.

Please contact Bettina Peacemaker (828-8960) of you have any questions.

You can find IBISWorld on the the library's A-Z list of databases. From the main search page, you can browse U.S. industries by NAICS code or try a search across any or all of the database areas. For reports from China, look for the China site link under the search box. You should also see buttons for Global Industry Research and Business Environment.

Please contact Bettina Peacemaker (828-8960) if you have any questions about IBISWorld.

To find the series, look for the Videos source type on your results list or try a search for Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series to browse a list of available videos. Please contact Bettina Peacemaker (828-8960) with any questions about the video series or Business Source Complete.

If you are used to using Crossfire Beilstein and Gmelin from the library home page, you will notice they are no longer listed as such. They are being replaced by Reaxys, available from the library's A-Z list of databases under "R." This new search and discovery tool supports research and fuels discovery by integrating reaction and substance data search with synthesis planning. It incorporates Beilstein (organic chemistry database), Gmelin (inorganic chemistry database) and Patent Chemistry, thereby creating a single architecture for convenient search of chemistry data.

Reaxys is Web-accessible for maximum flexibility. It has an intuitive interface, thus it is easy to learn and use. Its powerful search takes users to credible, accurate data. Its results management tool, analysis tools, synthesis-route planning and collaborative reports, support chemists' work-flow. It also contains new tools to evaluate hit sets, propose synthesis strategies, and move more quickly from a basic idea to a target compound.

Reaxys provides more complete information about a reaction pathway, therefore providing a new way to solve research problems. VCU faculty, staff, and students in biochemistry, biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, medicinal chemistry, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, and other related disciplines, will find this new tool to be an immense improvement over Crossfire. 

Direct questions and comments to:

Ibironke Lawal
804-828-8739

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
7:30 p.m.
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA

In February 1960, African American students and others began to participate in sit-in demonstrations at lunch counters throughout the South. These protests against segregation in public facilities received national attention and precipitated the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which extended voting rights and outlawed racial segregation in schools, the workplace, and in public facilities. Join us for a panel discussion exploring the legacy of those protests, including the state of Black America and race relations 50 years after the student-led sit-ins.
 
Panelists:

• Jenny Jones, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work, VCU
• Napoleon Peoples, PhD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, VCU
• Jill Rowe, PhD, Assistant Professor, African American Studies, VCU
• Shawn O. Utsey, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of African American Studies, VCU
• Moderated by Njeri Jackson, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science and Special Assistant for Diversity in the Office of the Provost, VCU
  

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) 827-1163 prior to February 5, 2010.

The eighth annual VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library. More information about Black History Month is available on the VCU Libraries Webpage.

Surveys will be administered once a month at each library for a two hour time period.  The dates and times have been randomly selected and will vary each month.  The next survey will take place at Cabell Library on Thursday, January 14, 2010.

During the survey period, you will be given a short survey form to complete during your visit.  The online survey will appear when you select library resources from the VCU Libraries Web site.

If you have questions or comments about the survey, please contact Nia Rodgers at the James Branch Cabell Library.

Changes to the homepage

Quick Links

Have no fear! Quick links are still on the homepage under "Top Resources." Click on the down arrow to find a listing of all Top Resources available from the homepage.

Looking for research toolkits or the Compass blog?

Click on the 'more>>' link under Research Help. Research help is a new section of the site that provides greater access to the libraries' instructional resources.

Learn more with a guided tour

Take a virtual tour of the homepage, or attend a brief tutorial session at Cabell Library.

New Website features

Tools & Gadgets

From the all-new Tools and Gadgets page, you can add the library catalog search widget to your iGoogle page, link to mobile sites for large databases such as PubMed, and access citation tools such as Refworks.

Mobile access to databases

Check out Databases A-Z! There is now an icon beside each database name for those databases that have mobile access.

New titles in the catalog

Click on all feeds from the homepage and then navigate to New Titles from the Libraries. You'll find a beta RSS feeds for new titles in four areas that you can use to notify when new titles in your subject come into the library. Check back later in the semester for many more subjects.

Search for DVDs or New Titles

Check out the DVDs/Film & New Titles links right in the homepage search box.

Need to ask a question?

The Ask a Librarian form is now linked from all over the site. For example, go to Ask Us and click on the link in the right column that says 'using our online form.'

Tell us what you think about the redesign!

Please take a moment to fill out our survey and let us know if you have questions or comments about the redesign.

• Tuesday, January 19, 5 p.m.
• Wednesday, January 20, 9:30 a.m.
• Friday, January 22, 11 a.m.
• Monday, January 25, 10 a.m.
• Monday, January 25, 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, January 26, noon

All sessions will be held in Cabell Library, Library Instruction Classroom, 319. You can also view an online tutorial of the new home page. For information on additional VCU Libraries events and classes visit the VCU Libraries events page.
 

Thursday, January 21
10:00 a.m. 
3:30 p.m. 

Friday, January 22
10:00 a.m. 
1:30 p.m. 

Tuesday, January 26
1:00 p.m. 
4:00 p.m. 

Wednesday, January  27
1:30 p.m. 
4:30 p.m.

For information on additional VCU Libraries events and classes visit the VCU Libraries events page.
 

Access will remain open for selected services:

• Databases by Subject and AtoZ: http://metalib.vccs.edu/V/?func=find-db-1
• Library Catalog (including reserves): http://catalog.library.vcu.edu
• ILLiad: http://illiad.library.vcu.edu
• Ejournals: http://sfx.library.vcu.edu/vcu/az/
• Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu
• ETDs: http://digarchive.library.vcu.edu

• January 28, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• January 29, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m..

VCU Libraries will conduct a series of surveys over the next year to learn how our faculty, students, and staff use library resources and services. Your feedback is extremely valuable and will help to improve VCU Libraries resources and services. The survey has been designed in concert with consultants, and responses will be confidential.

Surveys will be administered once a month at each library for a two hour time period. The dates and times have been randomly selected and will vary each month. The next survey will take place at Cabell Library on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.

During the survey period, you will be given a short survey form to complete during your visit. The online survey will apear when you select library resources from the VCU Libraries Web site.

If you have questions or comments about the survey, please contact Mary Ellen Spencer at the James Branch Cabell Library.

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development. The WDI provides a comprehensive overview of development drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partners.

WDI is the World Bank's premiere annual compilation of data about development and includes more than 900 indicators in 91 tables organized into 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. Data are shown for 153 economies with populations of more than 1 million, as well as selected indicators for 56 other economies with populations between 30,000 and 1 million and even smaller economies, if they are members of the World Bank. The dates of coverage are 1960 to the present.

Learn more about data and statistics resources available from VCU Libraries. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

Monday, November 16, 2009
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Cabell Library Instruction Classroom, Room 319
Monroe Park Campus

Early American Imprints covers early American literature, printing, and history. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set covers the history of American government from 1817 to 1973. This workshop will teach you the basics of using these resources, which share a common interface, to find primary sources in the areas they cover. For more information, please contact John Glover.

When: Thursday, November 12, 5 p.m.

Where: Cabell Library 4th Floor Conference Room, adjacent to the elevators.

Free Food!

Nov. 16, 2009 7 p.m.
University Student Commons Theater
907 Floyd Ave.
"Iron Jawed Angels," a 2004 HBO production.
Much of it filmed in Richmond, Virginia. Stars Hilary Swank and Anjelica
Huston, and tells the story of the struggle of several suffragists who
fought for the passage of the 19th amendment.

Nov. 19, 2009 7 p.m.
University Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom
907 Floyd Ave.
Librarian of Virginia Sandra G. Treadway, Ph.D. will present "A Lady's
Place is in the House [of Delegates]: Virginia Women in Politics,
1909-2009."

Nov. 20, 2009 Noon
Suffrage march and official renaming of the Crenshaw House
Participants will gather on the Shafer Court side of Ginter House, 901
W. Franklin St., and march to the Crenshaw House, 919 W. Franklin St.

All events are free and open to the public.  Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street, West Cary Street and West Broad Street parking decks.  If special accommodations are needed, please e-mail krsepar@vcu.edu or call 804-827-1163.

Story on WCVE-FM
Listen to an interview with VCU Libraries' Ray Bonis about the women's suffrage movement in Richmond (audio courtesy of WCVE).

This event is sponsored by the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, VCU Libraries and the League of Women Voters.  You can learn more about the founding of the Equal
Suffrage League online or in Special Collections and Archives, 4th floor, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Avenue.

The Webcast will run from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., with an optional wrap around discussion taking place from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Register online, or visit the official Website for more information.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has redesigned most PubMed search screens. To start with, the PubMed homepage has been streamlined, and includes an NCBI Header, Search Bar, and Footer that are common to all PubMed pages. There have been changes to display pages, location of Limits, History, and other tabs, Clipboard and output options. This class will go over these changes and provide a quick review of how best to search PubMed and send your results to RefWorks.

To register for the Wednesday, November 4 class, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7257.
To register for the Tuesday, November 10 class, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7258.

Friday, November 6, 2009
6:30 p.m.
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons
907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA

Virginia Commonwealth University welcomes the 2009 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award winner Deb Olin Unferth, her agent, David McCormick, and her editor at McSweeneys, Eli Horowitz, as they trace the journey of Unferths masterful Vacation from first draft to publication.

The reading and book discussion are free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. For more information call (804) 828-4640, or e-mail Sarah Amick or Dale Smith.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, presented by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, James Branch Cabell Library Associates, Friends of the Library, VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

VCU Libraries will conduct a series of surveys over the next year to learn how our faculty, students, and staff use library resources and services. Your feedback is extremely valuable and will help to improve VCU Libraries resources and services. The survey has been designed in concert with consultants, and responses will be confidential.

Surveys will be administered once a month at each library for a two hour time period. The dates and times have been randomly selected and will vary each month. The next survey will take place at Cabell Library on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

During the survey period, you will be given a short survey form to complete during your visit. The online survey will apear when you select library resources from the VCU Libraries Web site.

If you have questions or comments about the survey, please contact Mary Ellen Spencer at the James Branch Cabell Library.

The first international Open Access Week is intended to raise awareness of the benefits of free, open, online and immediate access to scholarly research.  Celebrate by learning more about Open Access at the following sites:

• Open Access Week Organization
• SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• VCU Libraries - Open Access Resources

Sponsored in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art & Art History, University Museums, Velocity Comics and VCU Libraries Special Collections.

VCU students are encouraged to stop by the VCU Libraries Administration Office, 4^th floor Cabell Library, to pick-up a limited number of vouchers redeemable for a reduced ticket price of $10. One voucher per person, first come, first serve beginning October 16, 2009. Students should call the Modlin Center Box Office at (804) 289-8980 to redeem the $10 voucher for an admission ticket.

VCU faculty, staff and alumni are eligible for a $10.00 discount off of the adult ticket price of $38 by entering the code CRUMB10 when purchasing tickets through Ticketmaster or at 1-800-745-3000.

Public Tickets: $19-$38 with discounts for seniors & children; through Ticketmaster or at 1-800-745-3000. Patrons requesting accessible seating should contact the Modlin Center Box Office at (804) 289-8980. Audience Advisory: Mature audiences only; contains sexual content. For more information is available from the Modlin Center.

R. Crumb, regarded as the founding father of underground comics, got his first taste of fame, as well as notoriety, during the 1960s - his "Zap Comix" rapidly attracted the attention of a fan base whose members dwelt well beyond the geographical parameters of San Francisco's Bay Area. Crumb, whose cartoons are controversial, funny, at times bizarre and always idiosyncratic, today occupies a place of honor in the world of high culture and art. His graphic narrative "Genesis", scheduled for release in the fall of 2009, has generated more-than-eager anticipation. For his Richmond engagement, one of only five appearances nation-wide, Crumb will participate in a conversation with Françoise Mouly, art editor for "The New Yorker" since 1993. She is also the founder, publisher, designer and co-editor along with her husband, cartoonist Art Spiegelman, of the avant-garde comics anthology "RAW."

You can learn more about R. Crumb at the VCU Libraries or through our Website.

An exhibit of R. Crumb's comics and other materials is located on the 4^th floor of James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Avenue.

• Monday, October 26, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 27, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 28, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Thursday, October 29, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Monday, November. 2, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 3, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Monday, November 9, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 10, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 11, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 17, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Thursday, November 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Monday, November 30, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, December 1, 4 - 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, December 2, 4 - 7 p.m.

Researchers are encouraged to stop by anytime the clinics are open. For a list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.
 

Evidence-Based Medicine
Wednesday, October 28
6 - 7 p.m.
Need evidence to support clinical decision making? This class will cover the definition and theory behind EBM and will showcase VCU Libraries resources for medical evidence in the literature. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7239

Finding Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Friday, November 6
1:30 - 2 p.m.
Need reliable information on complementary and alternative medicine? Confused by contradictory claims and evidence about dietary supplements? Explore databases and websites for both health professionals and patients during this online workshop. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7240

PubMed
Tuesday, November 10
6 - 7 p.m.
During this online workshop, learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options, and print formats. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7241

Keeping Current with Your Research
Thursday, November 12
6 - 7 p.m.
During this online workshop you will learn tips to help make your research efforts more effective and efficient. Attendees will be shown how to customize library services, store searches and find the most current research using PubMed, Web of Science (WOS), and NCHS data sources. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7242

RefWorks
Wednesday, December 2
6 - 7 p.m.
Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=7243

Learn how to use Anatomy.TV at either of Tompkins-McCaw Library's workshops on Thursday, October 22 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in room 2-012, or on Thursday, November 5 from 12:00 to 12:30 in room 2-012. We will demonstrate how to use this database for studying as well as for classroom use, presentations, and lectures, and how to incorporate the database into Blackboard courses.

• Register for the October 22 class.
• Register for the November 5.

• Monday, October 19: noon - 8 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 20: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
• Wednesday, October 21: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
• Thursday, October 22: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
• Friday, October 23: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.*
  *Special ½ price sale on Friday!
  

Preview Sale for Friends of the Library

• Monday, October 19: 9 a.m. - noon
  (Please present your Friends donor card for admission to the preview sale.)
  

For more information about the Friends of the Library Book Sale, please contact the VCU Libraries Development Office at (804)-828-4640 or (804)-827-1165, e-mail seamick@vcu.edu or vassaram@vcu.edu, or visit our Web site.

The PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.

In this workshop, learn how to use advanced features enabling you to:

• save searches
• create search alerts
• create folders for organization by project / class
• export citations into RefWorks.

With new albums and artists added monthly, Jazz Music Library will become the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online. Thousands of recordings are represented, ranging from past greats to musicians performing today, including:  Billy Strayhorn, Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Dizzie Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Lester Young, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughn, Stan Getz, Thelonius Monk, Wes Montgomery, and a long list of influential artists. Liner notes to all the albums represented are also included (in PDF format).

Jazz Music Library also enables users to create their own playlists -- recordings of personal favorites, or for class assignments. Playlists can be annotated, edited, copied, and shared by any user of the database.

Exciting new materials will be highlighted on the home page, and each month a large number of albums will be added. Entries include detailed instrumentation and performer information, and search options include date or place of recording, genre of jazz, instrument, record label, album or song title, and performer.



 

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Investigations has released the report: Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme. In a written statement, SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro said, "Today we are releasing the Inspector General's 450-page report regarding the Bernard Madoff fraud and the many missed opportunities to discover it...it is a failure that we continue to regret, and one that has led us to reform in many ways how we regulate markets and protect investors."

In June of 2009, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal district court in New York to perpetrating a massive Ponzi scheme since the early 1990s that victimized thousands of investors. Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 criminal counts including securities fraud, and providing false documents and testimony to the SEC. The SEC has developed the Post-Madoff Reforms to prevent fraud and to promote its detection in the future.

Learn more about VCU Libraries' government documents collections. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

The Presentation Rehearsal Studio at Cabell Library provides VCU students, faculty, and staff with the space and technology resources to practice, record, and develop presentations as well as to refine public speaking skills. Presentations may be recorded and then archived to a flash drive.

The Studio features a podium, ceiling-mounted projector, microphone, and a motorized viewing screen.

• Share images with students and colleagues through ARTstor folders, e-mail, and Blackboard.
• Upload and manage your own images in ARTstor Personal Collections.
• Make presentations with the Offline Image Viewer.
• Download high resolution images and image groups for use in PowerPoint or Keynote.

The Teaching with ARTstor Workshop is open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. It will be held in in the third floor classroom in Cabell Library on October 9th, from 10:00am-11:30 a.m.

Please contact Kristina Keogh at (804) 828-6339 for more information or special accommodations.

The VCU Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of more than 150 electronic health sciences books from multiple publishers through the new R2 Digital Library. The new collection provides access to digital books from the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health. In addition, each individual title is cataloged and linked from the VCU Libraries Catalog. The R2 Web site can be browsed by category or discipline, and keyword searches can be performed across the entire collection of books. Users can create a personal account to save images, searches, references, and other files. Bibliographic citations can be exported to RefWorks and titles can be linked from Blackboard courses. Other features include a drug index of concise information from mobilePDR and the ability to e-mail sections of content. Titles from key health science publishers are available, including American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Publishing, F.A. Davis, McGraw-Hill, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Springer, and many others.  Electronic book collections such as the R2 Digital Library are indicative of future publishing trends in Science, Technology and Medicine disciplines.

The R2 Digital Library will be celebrated as the 2,000,001st addition to the VCU Libraries during VCU's 2,000,000th volume ceremonies on October 2, beginning at 2 p.m. in Cabell Library. The event will be simulcast at Tompkins-McCaw Library on the MCV Campus.

The library's Web team has been hard at work on a redesign of the VCU Libraries homepage, but we need your help before we go live. Please take a moment to review the redesigned site by clicking on the image in our redesign blog, then answer a few short questions for us.

The VCU Libraries is delighted to announce the release of a new addition to the VCU Libraries Digital Collections: the Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Collection. From 1959 to 1964, Prince Edward County, Virginia, chose to close its public schools rather than integrate them. Through photographs, documents, and maps, this collection explores the history of Prince Edward County segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Edward H. Peeples, Emeritus professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, photographed over 100 images of schools in the county and environs in 1962 and 1963, documenting the disparity between African American and white facilities. Also included are contemporary images of the schools and events surrounding the anniversary of the 1951 student strike and other occasions, as well as additional published and unpublished materials on the topic.

The Edward Peeples Collection will be celebrated as the 1,999,999th addition to the VCU Libraries during VCU's 2,000,000th volume ceremonies on October 2, beginning at 2 p.m. in Cabell Library.  The event will be simulcast at Tompkins-McCaw Library on the MCV Campus.

Visit more projects at the VCU Libraries Digital Collections.
 

VCU Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of its two millionth volume at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2. In just 16 years, the VCU Libraries' collection, including books, journals, media and electronic resources, has doubled in size. To mark this milestone, the VCU Libraries will recognize the 1,999,999th, 2,000,000th and 2,000,001st additions to the collection in ceremonies at Cabell and Tompkins-McCaw libraries. Details will be announced soon.

Hispanic Heritage Month is a month long observance (September 15 - Oct. 15) when America celebrates the culture and traditions of U.S. residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America, and the Latin Caribbean. VCU Libraries is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by hosting a special exhibit on resources in our collections relating to Hispanic history and culture. On display on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library are a sample of the many books, films, and music recordings the library houses on Latin American society.

Also on display are two of the first Spanish language newspapers to be published in Virginia. Complete runs of the newspapers El Eco de Virginia and El Sol were donated to VCU Libraries in 2006. The issues were microfilmed and added to the Virginia State Newspaper Project. The newspapers can be accessed in the library's Special Collections and Archives department or on microfilm on the third floor of the library.

Hispanic Heritage Month began in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded to a 30-day period under President Ronald Reagan in 1988. September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of the independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- all of which declared independence in 1821. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.

Please visit the James Branch Cabell Library's exhibit area, located on the fourth floor of the library, to view this exhibit and others that highlight many of the diverse collections housed in the VCU Libraries.

ARTstor is a digital library of over one million images (including art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences) and a suite of software tools. In this workshop, you will learn how to search and browse the ARTstor collection of images, create an account and manage folders, create and manage image groups, and download and use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer. The workshop will be held in the third floor classroom in Cabell Library on September 18th, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. and repeated on September 25th, from 1-2:30 p.m.  Please contact Kristina Keogh (804-828-6339) for more information or for special accommodations.

A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence

• Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, 12:00 p.m.: Cabell Library Room B-35
• Friday, September 18th, 2009, 12:30 p.m.: Tompkins-McCaw Library Room 2-012 (Library Instruction Classroom)

Join us for the screening of a 30-minute video featuring Supreme Court justices Kennedy, O'Connor, and Breyer. In a conversation with students, the justices discuss the Constitution and the role of judges who are sworn to uphold the laws of this nation and to protect the rights of all citizens.

The Constitution Project: An Independent Judiciary

• Wednesday, September 16th, 2009, 12:00 p.m. Cabell Library: Room B-35
  
• Friday, September 18th, 2009, 1:00 p.m.: Tompkins-McCaw Library Room 2-012 (Library Instruction Classroom)

Join us for a screening of a 34-minute film chronicling two key moments that defined our understanding of the role of the judiciary: the Cherokee Nation's struggles before the Supreme Court in the 1830s to preserve its homeland, and Cooper v. Aaron, the 1958 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states were bound to follow the Court's order to integrate their schools. An Independent Judiciary features Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and some of the nation's leading Constitutional scholars.

A Constitution Day Montage

• Ongoing, Cabell Library foyer and Tompkins-McCaw first floor

A PowerPoint presentation and video montage will be displayed on large-screen monitors inside the entrances. Catch trivia and fun facts as you visit the library! The video montage features a variety of clips, from the "Schoolhouse Rock" Preamble to a segment of Barbara Jordan's 1974 "Constitution Speech."

Pocket Constitutions

• Ongoing, September 14th-18th, Cabell Library reference desk and Tompkins-McCaw service desk

Stop by for a free pocket-sized copy of the Constitution. While supplies last!

• Springer Protocols contains more than 18,000 molecular biology and biomedical protocols, many from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology.
• Springer Images includes more than 1.5 million photos, tables, graphs, and histograms from Springer publications and images. Images can be saved and downloaded as PDFs or Powerpoint.
• Springer Ebooks includes access to all English/International language book content from 2005-2009, as well as book series dating back to 1997. This constitutes close to 19,000 titles.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Inspector General has released the "Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme" Executive Summary. In a written statement, SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro states:

"Since Bernard Madoff's fraud came to light last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission's Inspector General has been investigating why the agency failed to detect it. His report makes clear that the agency missed numerous opportunities to discover the fraud. It is a failure that we continue to regret, and one that has led us to reform in many ways how we regulate markets and protect investors.

"In an effort to provide a full accounting as quickly as possible, we are releasing the Executive Summary of the Inspector General's report, to be followed by the 450-page report in the coming days."

Learn more about VCU Libraries' government documents collections. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature full-text database, offers over 600 journals plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books. This is a must-have database for those in the nursing and allied health professions. Find out more information and register for the following sessions:

• Tuesday, September 15, from 6 to 7 pm
  
• Wednesday, September 16, from 9 to 10 am

Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? RefWorks, an online citation management database, is just what you're looking for. We will discuss how to import citations from databases, organize the citations, and correctly format citations for a manuscript. Find out more information and register for the following sessions:

• Tuesday, September 22, from 6 to 7 pm
• Thursday, September 24, from 9 to 10 am

Click on the following dates for more information and to register:

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 9:00 - 10:00 am
Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Friday, November 6, 2009 from 9:00 - 1-:00 am
Monday, November 16, 2009 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The following are new floor themes at Cabell:

• 1st and 2nd floors: Collaborative Study and Computing. More first floor group study rooms now have collaborative computing set-ups, and the former International Newsroom has become a group study room that can accommodate up to eight people. Additional study tables have also been added on the first floor. On the second floor, newly opened space has been renovated, including seven offices that are now group study rooms. Other group furniture and computing is being installed in adjacent spaces. An electrical upgrade was also completed, thanks to the help of Technology Services. On the first and second floors, headphones, MP3 players, and cell phones (set on silent) may be used if they are not disruptive.
• 3rd floor: This floor has become the Quiet Study floor. Only the occasional whisper will be permitted. Head phones and texting are permitted if the phone is set to silent and the head phones do not emit noise that disturbs others.
• 4th floor: The fourth floor has become the Silent Study area. No conversation whatsoever is permitted in or around its study spaces. Also, no cell phones, headphones, MP3s or any type of similar equipment is permitted. 

Thank you for respecting your fellow researchers.

Up to ten librarians will be honored, each receiving $5,000 and recognized at an awards ceremony in December 2009. All winners to be announced in early November. Each nominee must be a librarian with a master's degree from a program accredited by the ALA in library and information studies or a master's degree with a specialty in school library media from an educational unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Nominees must be currently working in the United States at an accredited two- or four-year college or university. For more information, including the online nomination form and tools to help promote the award, visit http://ww.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian.

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library is named for noted Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958). Cabell's "Jurgen" (1919) was considered pornographic by some and was banned soon after its publication. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Read more about Cabell and the Banning of Jurgen.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores. Banned Books Week is also endorsed by the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress. Learn more about Banned Book Week from the American Library Association, including the list of the ten most challenged book titles for 2008, and a section titled "what you can do" to help fight censorship.

• Point-of-Care Quick Reference - Over 240 select topics taken from the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care outlined for quick retrieval of information
• The new AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care - Over 3,000 pages of detailed information and recommendations
• Bright Futures - Comprehensive health supervision guidelines to help make the most of well-child visits
• Red Book Content - Detailed information from the AAP Red Book on over 200 childhood infectious diseases
• Interactive Periodicity Schedule - Interactive chart providing preventive screening and recommended actions for each well-child visit
• Signs & Symptoms Search - Quickly suggests diagnoses based on selected signs and symptoms
• Patient Handouts - Hundreds of patient handouts with easy to read explanations for many conditions and procedures
• Forms & Tools - Resources to help screen, track, and record clinical information

Pediatric Care Online is available to VCU affiliates from the VCU Libraries list of Databases A-Z. For off-campus access, login with your VCU eID and password. In addition to access via the Web, select content can be downloaded to handheld devices and smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile devices. This resource is provided by the VCU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, in partnership with the VCU Libraries.
 

Newly available space on Cabell Library's second floor was renovated for public use over the summer, including seven staff offices that became group study rooms. This brings the total number of group study rooms in Cabell to twenty-two. Plans for the new rooms include equipping them with whiteboards and computers with oversize monitors for group computing. In the space just outside of the new group rooms, more collaborative workspace, complete with expanded electrical access and whiteboards, is also available. Students began using the new spaces even before all the furniture was installed.

Thanks to the generosity of VCU Facilities Management, this summer four of the group study rooms at the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences received a much needed face lift with new paint, ceiling tiles, and carpet. Earlier in the year, two group study rooms were equipped with computer workstations and large plasma screens. In addition, the Instructional Media Workshop has been converted to an openly available Multimedia Collaboration Room with additional seating.

Check out the new and renovated study rooms and prepare to collaborate at the VCU Libraries!

For more information about these tours and other VCU Libraries events and workshops, visit the VCU Libraries events page.

Orientation Tour Schedule:

Friday, August 21
11:00 a.m.    
2:00 p.m.    

Saturday, August 22
11:00 a.m.

Sunday, August 23
3:00 p.m.    

Wednesday, August 26
2:00 p.m.   

Thursday, August 27
1:00 p.m.   

Friday, August 28
1:00 p.m.

Words on Paper, Words on Screen is an exhibition organized for VCU's James Branch Cabell Library by Stephen Vitiello from the department of Kinetic Imaging and Yuki Hibben, Collection Librarian for the Arts, VCU Libraries.

This show brings together a diverse collection of artworks, by current and former undergraduate and graduate students from across the School of the Arts, including Kinetic Imaging, Painting and Printmaking, Media Art and Text, Crafts and Material Studies, and Sculpture and Extended Media. Each of the works selected integrate text as a visual element. These paintings, sculptures, videos, and drawings will be hung on and around the columns that run throughout Cabell Library's first floor.

Presenting an exhibition of art and text is intended as a natural link to exhibiting in VCU's heavily used library. It is also meant to look at current trends in contemporary art as interpreted by some of the school's most promising young artists.

This show includes a group of drawings by Leah Beeferman, from her series Monitoring the architecture of science, which she describes as "a studious, imaginative investigation of space-bound and land-based far-traveling and distant-looking orbiting and non-orbiting structures." In addition, Ali Miharbi's digital variation on a score by Fluxus artist Eric Andersen Opus 46 is included. One of the most unusual pieces in the show is The Book, a book buried and left to decompose by former Sculpture student Nic DeSantis. Desantis writes, "The Book depicts a burial process where consciousness becomes dust, which portrays the beauty of decay, Alzheimer's, and rust, and asks, 'At what point does reading become writing?'"

This exhibition is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and is part of an ongoing effort to showcase the talents of VCU's student, faculty and alumni artists and to foster partnerships between the VCU Libraries and other VCU departments. For additional information about the VCU Friends of the Library, visit us online.

The VCU Libraries Catalog will be unavailable for most of the weekend from Friday evening at 6 p.m. through Sunday morning (August 7-9). As an alternative, use WorldCat to search holdings in the VCU Libraries collections.

The extended outage will be used to expand our storage and support growth in our collections and services. We apologize for the inconvenience.

• have access to requests submitted after June 30, 2008.
• have access to all active and incomplete requests.
• no longer have access to completed (finished and canceled) requests submitted before June 30, 2008. Once deleted, patron requests cannot be restored.
• no longer have access to ILLiad patron profile if there has been no activity since June 30, 2008. Patrons will be able to create a new ILLiad profile by registering again using their VCU eID and password.

For more information about the purge, contact Resource Delivery Services (804-828-1115).

Like other Elsevier backfile collections, the collection complements our current subscriptions to the respective journals in Science Direct. Access to all the journals is through Science Direct.

Direct questions and comments to Ibironke Lawal Engineering & Science Librarian (828-8739).

Visit all of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections at http://dig.library.vcu.edu/.

If you have questions about collaborative work space or technology resources available at Cabell Library, please call the reference desk at (804) 828-1101.

Direct questions and comments to Ibironke Lawal, Engineering and Science Librarian (828-8739).

WRDS has extended access to all graduate students at the doctoral and masters levels to support research among MBA and masters students in business and related fields. Accounts for faculty, staff, and graduate students allow unlimited remote access to all of the resources VCU subscribes to via WRDS, including Compustat and CRSP. Accounts can be requested at http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu. All VCU students, faculty, and staff can also access WRDS at the library. Contact Bettina Peacemaker, the Reference Librarian for Business, if you have any questions about WRDS.

Titles in the Psychiatry Legacy Collection, along with dates of coverage, include:

Here is a list of titles available on STAT!Ref through VCU Libraries:

• The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2008 - 16th Ed.
• AHFS Drug Information (2009)
• Basic and Clinical Pharmacology - 10th Ed. (2007)
• Current Diagnosis and Treatment Critical Care - 3rd Ed. (2008)
• Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment - 48th Ed. (2009)
• Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment - 12th Ed. (2006)
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - Text Rev. (DSM-IV-TR, 2000)
• Drugpoints System 2009
• Family Medicine: Principles and Practice - 6th Ed. (2003)
• Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics - 11th Ed. (2006)
• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine - 17th Ed. (2008)
• Infectious Diseases: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention (2008)
• Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations - 6th Ed. (2009)
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis And Therapy - 18th Ed. (2006)
• Review of General Psychiatry - 5th Ed. (2000)
• Rudolph's Pediatrics - 21st Ed. (2003)
• Williams Obstetrics - 22nd Ed. (2005)

VCU Libraries presents the last of its 15X15X15 online workshop series, featuring Legal Health Basics. Need help finding a legal citation? Want to know how to Shepardize a case? This class will demonstrate basic search strategies using Lexis-Nexis Academic as well as the Code of Virginia online.

This library workshop will take place online via the Wimba Live classroom found within Blackboard. As you register for this course, you will be added to the Health Sciences Resources Blackboard course, which will appear under the My Courses heading when you log into Blackboard. This course contains tutorials and other information pertaining to the various databases used at Tompkins-McCaw Library and is a useful tool for you to consult after the online class to help you further understand databases such as PubMed.

To participate in the online class you will need to check your computer to make sure you have all the necessary software to participate in the class. You will need a pair of headphones or speakers that are connected to your computer. You may also use a microphone to communicate with the instructor, but that is not required. We will have someone monitoring any questions you may have via the classroom chat. Access http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQVr6Vn7p for all online instructions to prepare your computer for the class. To listen to the instructions on screencast you will need your headphones or speakers.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6554.

Speaking about the breadth and depth of the work, Larry Squire says, “Neuroscience is still a developing field, but the Encyclopedia will have succeeded if it conveys the considerable promise that neuroscience offers for conquering the diseases that affect the nervous system and for understanding the brain, the mind, and ourselves.” Encyclopedia of Neuroscience can now be accessed through the VCU Libraries Catalog.

The new off-site facility that makes this expansion possible will be housed in the former Ukrop’s Super Market located conveniently between Grace and Broad Streets on Harrison Street. Renovations will transform the building into a dual-use facility, with six state-of-the-art classrooms as well as a separate, secure storage facility for library materials. The VCU Libraries will move little-use books, bound journals that now are available online, and other materials to the facility between the 2009-10 fall and spring semesters. The relocated volumes will remain in the catalog with a simple notation to indicate their new location. Library users will be able to request the relocated items online through the catalog at any time, and can expect delivery to Cabell Library once or twice a day for pickup.

The collection, available at http://go.vcu.edu/carver, consists of 15 oral histories conducted in 1999 and 2000 as part of a project funded by a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. The project, described as a “Living Newspaper,” produced a play entitled “Sheep Hill Memories – Carver Dreams.” Those interviewed are longtime residents, including Barbara Abernathy, former president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League, and Dr. Roy A. West, former mayor of Richmond. Also interviewed are newcomers to the community and those who have moved away from the neighborhood. The documentary play, which used information collected from the oral histories and other sources, focused on the history and survival of the Carver neighborhood.

The interviews, presented as MP3 files with complete PDF transcriptions, are part of the ongoing Carver-VCU Partnership that began in 1996. The Partnership's stated goal is to “create a shared urban community with a commitment to improving the neighborhood’s quality of life.” Carver is situated in Richmond, Virginia, just north of VCU’s Monroe Park campus, and is primarily a working class African American neighborhood, home to some 1,500 residents.

Visit all of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections at http://dig.library.vcu.edu/.

African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes makes available an extensive range of materials related to significant cultural centers of Africa, the history of African exploration, maps of Africa throughout history, travelers’ accounts, aerial and satellite photography, and ongoing scholarly research.

African Plants comprises scientific data from the African Plants Initiative (a collaboration of more than 50 research centers in Africa, Europe, and the United States) and features high-resolution digital images drawn from the estimated 60,000 plant species native to Africa, Madagascar, and the other islands surrounding the African continent.

Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa reflects the regional and global nature of political movements to achieve de-colonization. Documents in this collection address issues of colonial rule and international efforts that supported generations of resistance. A growing collection, with more than 180,000 pages of documents, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print books of special relevance, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches – as well as an extensive collection of documentary photographs.

Aluka will continue to expand these extensive collections, and add important new collections in the coming months and years – with particular focus on the histories of individual nations. Current collections that will be significantly expanded with additions of documents still being processed include the United Nations Documents collection and the World Council of Churches Programme to Combat Racism Collections. Finding aids, research guides, and bibliographies, intended to provide additional leads to information on a wide range of relevant materials held at scholarly institutions in Africa and around the world, will soon be available.

VCU Libraries has just acquired a valuable online resource, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS), which features more than 4,430 specially commissioned and peer reviewed articles. The articles are written by experts in the field to provide comprehensive, authoritative, and current coverage of the subject area. All articles are generously illustrated, which makes it an essential read for life scientists and also excellent for teaching.

To make it easy to use, articles are divided into three different categories: Introductory, which is more suitable for undergraduates; Advanced, which provides a more detailed discussion of the specialist subject; and Keynote, which provides a platform for debate, where controversial issues and hot topics can be discussed.

The glossary provides important information for non-specialists, and includes biological, biochemical, and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units, and other technical data. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a wonderful resource for students, faculty, and researchers in the life sciences as well as for non-specialists. It can be accessed through the VCU Libraries catalog.

Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.

Learn more about VCU Libraries' government documents collections. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other national agencies
• World Health Organization (WHO) and other international sites
• Virginia Department of Health
• News sites
• RSS feeds
• Twitter feeds
• Blogs
• Maps

The guide may also be found linked from the Resource Guides by Subject page.

Learn more about VCU Libraries' government documents collections. For assistance, call the Cabell Library reference desk at 828-1101.

Tompkins-McCaw Library is offering on orientation about the resources available in the Instructional Media Workshop, a self-service facility, on Wednesday, April 29, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., starting at the first-floor service desk. The IMW computers include a variety of software, including Adobe software used to convert MS Word documents into .pdf files. Equipment and supplies are available in the Workshop to produce posters, signs, digital images, and edit audio and video files. Use of the Workshop is done independently. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6563.

1. Navigate to http://www.refworks.com/mobile
2. Enter the VCU Libraries Group Code and your Login Name and Password.
3. Select the Remember Login option if desired. Your login information will be remembered for 14 days from the date you check this box.
4. Click the Login button.

To see the current Group Code, log into this eID-protected page.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994, includes every publication from the 15th through the 103rd Congress, comprising over 415,000 individual documents. Designed for legislative and historical research, it features comprehensive search strategies to locate unique information on the cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and scientific concerns of American government. Additionally, enhanced digital images of congressional publications, including approximately 56,000 maps of the changing nation and more than 8,000 illustrations in high-resolution color, allow for detailed online research.

American State Papers, cross-searchable with the digital U.S. U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994, and all other Readex Archive of Americana collections, is a retrospective survey of largely Congressional, but also Executive, materials originating from 1789 through 1838. The collection illuminates key moments in early American history as they occurred and influential decisions as they were made. It covers such important historical events as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Burr's Conspiracy, the Treaty of the Creek Indians negotiated by Andrew Jackson, and much more. American State Papers also includes speeches and messages during the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Other documents address battles with the Seminole Indians, exploration of the Pacific Ocean, the status of free blacks in North Carolina, granting public land for female academies, protection of the western frontier, trade with China, and other fascinating topics.

The Research and Instructional Services Department at Cabell Library will provide any assistance researchers may need with exploring these crucial digital collections.

La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc., is hosting a free professional seminar by J. A. Rodriquez, Jr., author of Not Intuitively Obvious-- Transition to the Professional Work Environment. Rodriguez is an experienced Fortune 200 senior manager and an inspiring speaker who mentors students on the successful transition to the professional work environment. This free seminar will include a question and answer session and book signing. This event is co-sponsored by La Unidad Latina Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc., VCU Libraries, and the VCU Career Center.

Tompkins-McCaw Library presents Library 101 on Monday, April 20, from noon to 1 p.m. beginning at the first floor service desk. This orientation workshop includes the most effective ways to find information, an introduction to services, and a tour of the facility. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6510.

• Thursday, April 16, 4 p.m. Cabell Library third floor conference room
• Tuesday, April 21, 2 p.m. Tompkins-McCaw Library second floor classroom
• Wednesday, April 29, 3 p.m. Cabell Library third floor conference room
• Thursday, April 30, at 3 p.m. Tompkins-McCaw Library second floor classroom

More information is available on the VCU Libraries Website.

Tompkins-McCaw Library presents a workshop on Evidence-Based Research on Thursday, April 16, from noon to 1 p.m. in Sanger B1-020. This workshop will describe what evidence-based health care is and how to find the evidence. Bibliographic and full-text resources for locating evidence-based literature also will be highlighted. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6462.

Technology Services and the VCU Libraries continue to partner in providing laptops, battery charging equipment, and staff for this pilot service. Funding for the Student Laptop Loan Pilot laptops and support equipment is also supported by your Student Technology Fee.

Students are invited to attend the second Cabell Life Forum, Thursday, April 16, at 5:00 p.m. in the fourth floor conference room of James Branch Cabell Library. Come hear about public space and equipment, electronic books, and more. Your input is needed. Bring your questions and ideas about these and other topics. Free food and drink provided!

Tompkins-McCaw Library is holding an orientation on the Instructional Media Workshop, a self-service facility, on Tuesday, April 14, from 11 a.m. to noon. Equipment and supplies are available in the workshop to produce posters, signs and digital images, and to edit audio and video files. Participants will meet at the first-floor service desk. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6505.

Tompkins-McCaw Library is screening the "The Truth About Cancer: Why Does Anyone Still Die of Cancer?" on Wednesday, April 15, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 2-010. A combination of science, personal catharsis and character-driven storytelling, this powerful documentary uncovers the truth about cancer and reveals where we stand in fighting this decades-old war. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6186.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/04/the-truth-about-cancer-why-doe.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/04/the-truth-about-cancer-why-doe.html Archive Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:35:46 -0500 Library 101
Tompkins-McCaw Library
Friday, April 10, 2 - 3 p.m

Learn about the variety of resources and services available at the Tompkins-McCaw Library during the Library 101 workshop on Friday, April 10, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The orientation includes a tour, introduction to the library's services and effective ways to find information. Tours begin at the first-floor Service Desk. Register online and find more information.

In the late 1980s, nursing alumni, faculty, and students began planning for the one hundredth anniversary observance of the founding of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. The school traces its rich heritage back to the organization of the Virginia Hospital Training School for Nurses, which opened in 1893. Betsy A. Bampton (MCV Class of 1960) undertook the writing of a school history published as the centennial celebration was set to begin. In this abundantly illustrated work, Bampton and her collaborators chronicle the development and growth of the eight diverse schools and programs that formed the foundation of the VCU School of Nursing. The stories unveiled in A Proud Heritage are integral to a full understanding of the VCU School of Nursing today.

The original publication was distributed widely within the VCU community and beyond, but few copies remain to circulate among new students and friends of the school. The VCU Libraries, working in cooperation with the School of Nursing, is pleased to make available an electronic version of this useful book. A Proud Heritage is just one of several electronic resources available for those interested in the study of the history of nursing in Virginia.

Visit the VCU Libraries Digital Collections at http://dig.library.vcu.edu/

Tompkins-McCaw Library is offering a workshop on RefWorks, an online citation management database, on Tuesday, April 7, from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Room 2-012.

RefWorks is an extremely useful tool that allows you to easily create and manage your own personal research database. With a personalized account, you can quickly add citations to your database as you are searching the literature. When you are ready, RefWorks will automatically generate your bibliography to finalize your grant, thesis, dissertation, or manuscript. With all the needed styles contained within RefWorks, your bibliography can easily be generated in APA, MLA, or most any other style. RefWorks now includes the added module, RefShare, which allows users to share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researchers via the Internet, further enhancing collaborative projects.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6457.

Do you have trouble finding drug information? In this class, we hope to demystify it by highlighting resources to obtain drug information such as Micromedex, Medlineplus, and MDConsult.

Online Instructions: This library workshop will take place online via the Wimba Live classroom found within Blackboard. As you register for this course you will be added to the Health Sciences Resources Blackboard course which will appear under the My Courses heading when you log into Blackboard. This course contains tutorials and other information pertaining to the various databases used at Tompkins-McCaw Library and is a useful tool for you to consult after the online class to help you in further understanding databases such as PubMed. To participate in the online class you will need to check your computer to make sure you have all the necessary software to participate in the class. You will need a pair of headphones or speakers that are connected to your computer. You may also use a microphone to communicate with the instructor, but that is not required. We will have someone monitoring any questions you may have via the classroom chat. Access http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQVr6Vn7p for all online instructions to prepare your computer for the class. To listen to the instructions on screencast you will need your headphones or speakers.

This tenth in the 15X15X15 series of online library workshops takes place Monday, April 6, from noon to 12:15 p.m. For more information and to register, visit http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/course_detail.asp?ID=6549.

The James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week during exams. This expanded service is called Library Lite All Nite.

From Sunday, April 19 through May 8, Cabell doors will open at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday and remain open until our regular Friday evening closing time at 9 p.m. Saturday hours will remain unchanged during Library Lite All Nite -- 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This service will provide 24/5 access to the library building and offer Circulation and Information services, individual study on the third and fourth floors, group study in designated areas, and computerized resources, including the library catalog, databases, Internet access, and Microsoft Office applications. The B-8 Computer Lab will also be open during the 24/5 hours.

Sunday through Thursday nights, all patrons entering James Branch Cabell Library after 10 p.m. are required to show VCUCards to gain admittance. A complete listing of operational hours for Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library is available online.

For more information about Library Lite All Nite and for a complete listing of available services, please visit this Web site.

The collection contains more than 7,000 color photographs of the city of Richmond. Taken over a period from 1965 to 2000, these images document many of the changes within the city. In some cases the images serve as a record for properties that have since been either renovated or demolished. Ranging from close-ups of architectural details and shots of single buildings to photos of entire city blocks and aerial shots, the subjects depicted include office buildings, houses, warehouses, construction sites, alleys, storefronts, historical buildings, cemeteries, gardens, and garages.

The photographs were scanned by the VCU Libraries from color slides. The slides were taken under the auspices of the Secretary to the Commission, a position housed in the Richmond Department of Community Development. The images were used for monthly Commission meetings, and were taken prior to meetings to document existing conditions of buildings and other structures before review. They show how the structures looked before rehabilitation or reconstruction.

Visit the VCU Libraries Digital Collections for more treasures from the VCU Libraries.

Micromedex, a business of Thomson Reuters, has discovered a situation in which misleading dosing information may be printed from the dosing calculators in the Healthcare Series and Point of Care applications. This applies to versions on both the Internet and Intranet (CD) delivery platforms.

This issue may arise in the following manner:

1. The user enters patient weight and/or dosing parameters, such as the IV concentration, into a dosing calculator.
2. The dosing recommendations that are returned are correct and can be printed for use at the point of care.
3. If the user decides to enter a new patient or dosing characteristic into the available text fields but does NOT click the Resubmit button or the Enter key (hard return), it is still possible to print a result page with the new patient or dosing characteristics in the header, but the previous results continue to be displayed in the body of the document.  Note: the correct dosing information will be generated upon selecting the Resubmit or Enter key.

This functionality will soon be enhanced on our Online System to prevent a potentially misleading display of the dosing result soon. It will be fixed with the Intranet Volume 141, expected to ship in June 2009.

Please take the necessary steps to ensure this important alert is made available to all users of Thomson Reuters Micromedex solutions at your facility, especially those involved in pediatric care.

If you have any questions, please contact our Customer Resource Center at 1-877-843-6796, say the product name, then select the appropriate option for support, or you may submit an electronic inquiry at: http://www.micromedex.com/support/request/tech_support/

The books are available for check out from Media and Reserve Services, located on the third floor of the James Branch Cabell Library. A valid VCU eID or VCU Friends of the Library Donor Card is all you will need to check out a book and start reading. A list of the novels and their current availability can be found in the VCU Cabell First Novelist Catalog.  The VCU Libraries Course Reserve Catalog can also be searched by words in title or author, Course Number (First Novelist Award), or Instructor (Cabell First Novelist Award). These books have a loan period of seven days, and may be renewed once. After checking out a novel and reading it, the most important thing for you to do is review it. Paper copies of the review forms will be available with each book at the Media and Reserve Services Desk. Please take one, fill it out, and return it to Media and Reserve Services along with the book. Review forms are also available online in PDF format and in Microsoft Word format.

Thank you for your interest and participation. Your help with this process is greatly appreciated, and we also hope you will enjoy reading these first novels by promising new authors.

Presented annually by the VCU MFA Program in Creative Writing, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors the best debut novel published during a 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.

Student use of the Newsrooms has declined as Internet access to media outlets has increased. Dr. Peter Kirkpatrick led the pioneering effort to create the International Newsrooms in collaboration with a variety of campus partners. This initiative will endure as an important step in the history of bringing the world to VCU.

Questions about this facility should be addressed to McKenna Brown, Executive Director, Office of International Education .

• Tuesday, March 17, 9:30 a.m.
• Wednesday, March 18, 3 p.m.
• Thursday, March 19 3:30 p.m.
• Friday, March 20, 2 p.m.

VCU Libraries offers Research Survival Workshops for new and returning students, faculty, or staff. These quick sessions offer an introduction or refresher on searching the library's Web resources for books and articles to support a research topic. Librarians will demonstrate the catalog and journal databases, including Academic Search Complete. This workshop runs 50 minutes, including time for questions.

All are welcome. For more information and to register online, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

Additional resources on learning library research skills can be found online including the Undergraduate Research Toolkit, Distance Learner's Toolkit, and Resource Guides devoted to topic areas such as Biological Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology, History, Art Education, and many others.

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) 828-4640 prior to March 17.

The 24th Annual Brown-Lyons Lecture is 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.

"In God We Trust" is the national motto of the United States. During the Cold War, Americans believed one of the greatest perils of communism was its atheistic canon. A spate of books has recently appeared attacking beliefs in God and supporting atheism. Why this rancorous response? What's so bad about atheism? How does Judaism respond to the atheists' arguments? What is unique in Jewish thought that atheists may find irrefutable? What is the Jewish thought that atheists may find irrefutable? What is the Jewish response to religions that believe in two, many, or no gods?

Dr. Jack D. Spiro holds the Harry Lyons Distinguished Chair in Judaic Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also director of the VCU Center for Judaic Studies and editor of its online publication, Menorah Review. He has earned two doctorates from the Hebrew Union College and the University of Virginia. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 20 books and written over 40 articles.

For more information, contact your ICPSR Official Representative at VCU, Jennifer Darragh.

• Where: 2nd floor of Cabell Library, Group Study Area
• When: Thursday, February 19 @ 5 p.m.

This first Cabell Life Forum will be your chance to hear the University Librarian, John Ulmschneider, talk about planning for a new library building on the Monroe Park Campus. See the slide show and bring your ideas for what a new library should be. The Cabell Life Forum will be your opportunity to bring questions and concerns about Cabell Library to the ears of library administrators. Bring your thoughts and your ideas for future meeting topics.

Free food and drinks!

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/students-attend-the-first-cabe.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/students-attend-the-first-cabe.html Archive Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:41:11 -0500 Due to critical site maintenance by the publisher, the Wiley Interscience Web site may be down for up to 12 hours on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Wiley Interscience hosts a very large number of VCU Libraries e-journals, online books, and other resources. We apologize for the disruption and inconvenience. Please check back after 9 p.m. Saturday evening to access online materials from Wiley Interscience.
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/wiley-interscience-web-site-do.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/wiley-interscience-web-site-do.html Archive Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:32:21 -0500 The VCU Libraries catalog now offers a new way to search our moving image collections, which include DVDs, Blu-ray discs, film reels, laserdiscs, videocassettes, and Internet videos. You can access the new section by selecting the DVDs/Film tab at the basic search page of the catalog.

While all these items can be found in our full catalog using the general basic, browse, or advance search screens, the new section allows you to more easily search for only moving image materials. Added features to the DVDs, Film, Videos section include improved language search capabilities (available from the advanced or expert search page), as well as director and genre browses (still in test).

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/new-dvds-film-videos-searching.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/02/new-dvds-film-videos-searching.html Archive Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:29:21 -0500 VCU Libraries and VCU Technology Services invite you to stop by to see preliminary furniture layouts for a Learning Commons in Cabell Library. The plans will be displayed on the library's second floor, the area for which the Commons is planned. Your feedback and reactions to the layouts is very valuable to us. Stop by and take a look. Even better, tell us what you think.
• When: Monday and Tuesday, February 2 and 3, 3-5 pm each day
• Where: James Branch Cabell Library, second floor
• Why: Review proposed improvements to space that will help bridge the gap to a new library building
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/see-the-floor-plansi-cabell-li.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/see-the-floor-plansi-cabell-li.html Archive Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:37:48 -0500 The VCU Libraries presents Current VCU Libraries Exhibits on display, showcasing materials housed in the Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives. The exhibits feature the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe, rare editions of works by Andrea Palladio, artists' books from the Women's Studio Workshop, VCU's 40th Anniversary, published works of Edward Gorey, Tarzan of the Apes, Hispanic Heritage, Gay and Lesbian Collection, Richmond Zine Collection, Manga, and Will Eisner Award Collection. These exhibits can be viewed on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library.

The VCU Libraries' Website also includes Online Exhibits to highlight various collections from the Special Collections and Archives departments of James Branch Cabell and Tompkins-McCaw Libraries.

For questions with regards to setting up an exhibit, please contact Gay Acompanado (827-3573).

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/current-vcu-libraries-exhibit.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/current-vcu-libraries-exhibit.html Archive Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:53:19 -0500 The VCU Libraries is pleased to announce, in conjunction with Black History Month, the release of a new addition to the VCU Libraries Digital Collections: the Jackson Ward Historic District. The collection documents the architecture of Richmond's historic Jackson Ward neighborhood through photographs and text from the book The Jackson Ward Historic District, published in 1978 by the City of Richmond's Department of Planning and Community Development, with photographs by John Zehmer and text by Robert P. Winthrop, Virginia architect and specialist in the architectural history of Richmond.

This project is much more than just a straight digitization of the book. In addition to presenting the book in its entirety, there are high-quality scans of each photograph appearing in the book, digitized from the original prints. Additional information has been provided about the architectural features of Jackson Ward. We have created a Google Maps interface showing the locations of all buildings documented in the book, with links to the photographs. Finally, we have made available for download the GIS data, in KML and CSV formats, as well as all of the metadata associated with the book in XML.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/new-digital-collection-the-jac.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/new-digital-collection-the-jac.html Archive Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:30 -0500 VCU Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of Anatomy.TV, an interactive 3D model of human anatomy online. This unique database provides detailed views of anatomy at various levels from bone to surface structure. Models can be rotated and layers can be peeled away to view medically accurate representations of anatomical structures. Clicking on different sections of an image will pull up labels and descriptive text, along with links to videos and radiological images.

Anatomy.TV images can be saved for use in papers, presentations, and lectures. Interactive quizzes and multiple-choice questions help test your knowledge of human anatomy. This visually stunning and unique database is produced by UK-based Primal Pictures. Anatomy.TV can be accessed from the list of Databases A-Z on the VCU Libraries homepage.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/new-anatomy-resource-available.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/new-anatomy-resource-available.html Archive Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:19:49 -0500 President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Hermes A. Medical Sciences Building Auditorium
1217 E. Marshall Street

Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to reduce global health inequities by investing in affordable new vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics for diseases that most gravely burden the world's poor, and by developing new partnerships to shape the future of global public health. In his presentation, Dr. Yamada will speak to his vision of the foundation's current and future role, and more broadly, to the shared priorities and approaches most important to securing major public health successes in the future.

Dr. Tadataka Yamada is president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program and was a previous intern and resident at MCV. He was formerly Chairman, Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline. A scientist and scholar in gastroenterology, Dr. Yamada is the author of more than 150 original manuscripts on the subject and is the editor of The Textbook of Gastroenterology. The studies undertaken by Dr. Yamada and his collaborators led to basic discoveries in the post-translational processing and biological activation of peptide hormones, the structure and function of receptors for hormones regulating gastric acid secretion, and the regulation of genes involved in the acid secretory process.

Free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the MCV Hospital parking deck. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 828-4640 or (804) 827-1165 prior to February 13.

Co-sponsored by the VCU Libraries and the MCV Campus Programs Office of the University Student Commons & Activities.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/global-health-education-discus.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/global-health-education-discus.html Archive Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:09 -0500 A Reading and Discussion with Lucy Anne Hurston
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
7:30 p.m.
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons I and II
907 Floyd Avenue

Lucy Anne Hurston, niece of major 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston and Professor of Sociology at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, is the author of the remarkable multimedia biography, Speak, So You Can Speak Again: A Life of Zora Neale Hurston. The work consists of text, photographs, a CD of Zora herself speaking and singing, and various pieces of removable memorabilia, including letters, maps, vintage magazine articles, and rough drafts of Zora's poems. A book signing and reception will follow the reading and discussion.

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 contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 828-4640 or (804) 827-1165 prior to February 13.

Co-sponsored by the VCU Libraries and the English, African American Studies, and Women's Studies departments.

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The VCU Libraries is hosting a viewing of the live broadcast of the presidential inauguration for President-elect Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. All are invited to stop by the library to view this historic event! The swearing-in ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m. This event is free and open to the VCU community and the public. Seating is limited, so come early.

MCV Campus: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.


Tompkins-McCaw Library

• Distance Education Rm., 2-010

Hunton Student Center

• Learning Center, Rm. 209
• 1st floor TV lounge
• 2nd floor Alumni Association Lounge

Monroe Park Campus: 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Cabell Library

• Distance Education Classroom, Rm. B-35
• Lounge adjacent to the Computer Lab, Rm. B-8
• Group Viewing Room, Rm. 310
• 1st floor, SE corner International Newsroom (perspectives from other countries)

For more information or special accommodations, please contact Shannon Jones at 828-0626.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/view-the-presidential-inaugura.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/view-the-presidential-inaugura.html Archive Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:54:57 -0500 The Physical Presence of Slavery in Richmond, Virginia
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
7:30 p.m.
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue

Richmond's slaves, and the Richmond slave trade, left an indelible but often unrecognized footprint on the City. That history remains vibrantly alive today in the passionate dialog surrounding the Slave Burial Ground, Lumpkin's Jail, and other historical sites. Join us for a panel discussion with Jeffrey Ruggles, PhD, curator of prints and photographs Virginia Historical Society, Maureen G. Elgersman Lee, PhD, executive director Black History Museum and Cultural Center, and Delegate Delores McQuinn, 70th District representative to the Virginia House of Delegates, as we examine slavery in Richmond and recent archaeological discoveries.

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 contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 828-4640 or (804) 827-1165 prior to February 6.

The seventh annual VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library. Visit our Website to learn more about other Black History Month activities sponsored by the VCU Libraries.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/vcu-libraries-black-history-mo.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/vcu-libraries-black-history-mo.html Archive Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:57:13 -0500 The C3 Project: Looking Forward, Looking Black - A multi-media presentation of music performed with video, poetry and dance
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
8:00 p.m.
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue

Admission is $5.00 for the general public; free with VCU student ID.

Co-sponsored by VCU Libraries, Music, Multicultural Affairs, Jazz Studies, English, African American Studies, Activities Programming Board, and the Provost's Office for Diversity. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 828-4640 or (804) 827-1165 prior to February 2.

For more information on the C3 project, visit http://www.darrylharperjazz.com/.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/the-c3-project-looking-forward.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/the-c3-project-looking-forward.html Archive Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:46:40 -0500 Worldcat.org.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/library-catalog-unavailable-fr.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/library-catalog-unavailable-fr.html Archive Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:55:18 -0500 Become familiar with Cabell Library early and save on hassles later in the semester. Orientation Tours meet inside the first-floor main entrance and last 30 minutes. Participants will learn more about the facility, how to use computing and print resources, as well as how library services and staff can assist visitors in completing their work.

For additional information about other VCU Libraries events and workshops, visit the events page.

Thursday, January 15th

• 10:00 a.m.
• 2:00 p.m.

Friday, January 16th

• 9:00 a.m.
• 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 20th

• 12:30 p.m.
• 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 21st

• 1:30 p.m.
• 4:30 p.m.
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/cabell-library-spring-orientat-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2009/01/cabell-library-spring-orientat-1.html Archive Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:42:51 -0500 VCU Libraries will be open reduced hours over the VCU winter break, 2008-2009. Please refer to the VCU Libraries' Website for a detailed schedule of holiday hours.

VCU Libraries will be closed on the following dates:

James Branch Cabell Library (Monroe Park Campus):

• December 20-21
• December 24-26
• January 1
• January 10

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences (MCV Campus):

• December 20-21
• December 24-28
• January 1-4
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/12/vcu-libraries-reduced-hours-du.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/12/vcu-libraries-reduced-hours-du.html Archive Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:24:54 -0500 The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has launched the Online Learning Center (OLC), a resource for teaching faculty who want to incorporate quantitative literacy into their courses. The OLC contains data-driven learning guides that can be incorporated into course curriculum where appropriate. At this time, guides are available for political science, sociology, and social psychology topics. If you have any questions about ICPSR and the OLC, please contact your official representative, Jennifer Darragh.
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/12/numeric-data-as-a-teaching-too.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/12/numeric-data-as-a-teaching-too.html Archive Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:02:52 -0500 Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences
Special Collections and Archives Reading Room
509 North 12th Street
Richmond, VA 23298-0582
804-828-0636

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

VCU Libraries will celebrate the contributions that MCV Campus authors have made to the scholarly literature. This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available for a fee in the Patient/Visitor parking deck. To RSVP, or to request special accommodations, please call (804) 828-4640 or e-mail Sarah Amick by December 8, 2008.

This event is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library.


]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/mcv-campus-authors-tea.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/mcv-campus-authors-tea.html Archive Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:15:02 -0500 Library Lite All Nite
24/5 Hours
November 30 - December 16, 2008
James Branch Cabell Library

The James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week during exams. This expanded service is called Library Lite All Nite.

From Sunday, November 30 through Tuesday, December 16, Cabell doors will open at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday and remain open until our regular Friday evening closing time at 9pm. Saturday hours will remain unchanged during Library Lite All Nite - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This service will provide 24/5 access to the library building and offer Circulation and Information services, individual study on the 3rd and 4th floors, group study in designated areas, and computerized resources including the library catalog, databases, Internet access, and Microsoft Office applications. The B-8 Computer Lab will also be open during the 24/5 hours.

Sunday through Thursday nights, all patrons entering James Branch Cabell Library after 10 p.m. are required to show VCUCards to gain admittance. A complete listing of operational hours for Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library is available online.

For more information about Library Lite All Nite and for a complete listing of available services, please visit this Web site.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/library-lite-all-nite-nov-30-d.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/library-lite-all-nite-nov-30-d.html Archive Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:00:31 -0500 VCU Cabell First Novelist Festival
November 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons
907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA
Directions

VCU welcomes 2008 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award winner Travis Holland, his agent, Amy Williams, and his editor, Dial Press Vice President Susan Kamil, as they trace the journey of Holland’s masterful “The Archivist’s Story” from first draft to literary sensation.

The reading and book discussion are free and open to the public, as well as the book signing and reception immediately following. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call Sarah Amick at (804) 828-4640 prior to Nov. 12, 2008.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, presented by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, James Branch Cabell Library Associates, VCU Friends of the Library, VCU Libraries, VCU Honors College and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/vcu-cabell-first-novelist-fest-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/vcu-cabell-first-novelist-fest-1.html Archive Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:21:38 -0500 Overcoming Life's Challenges and Championing Diversity November 6, 2008 5:00 pm Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building Auditorium, 1217 E. Marshall St., Richmond, VA Dr. Claudia Thomas will present "Overcoming Life's Challenges and Championing Diversity," on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm in the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building Auditorium. Dr. Thomas was the first African-American female orthopaedic surgeon in the United States, the 2008 recipient of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Diversity Award, and is the author of God Spare Life. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. To R.S.V.P. or request special accommodations, call (804) 828-4640 or email Sarah Amick at seamick@vcu.edu. Directions and Parking This event is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and the MCV Campus Programs, University Student Commons & Activities. More information about other Friends of the Library events is available on the Special Events page.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/vcu-libraries-lecture-dr-claud.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/11/vcu-libraries-lecture-dr-claud.html Archive Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:16:01 -0500 Cabell library is currently closed due to a power outage. Please check back for further updates. Research questions should be directed to the Tompkins-McCaw Library service desk at 804-828-0636. http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/power-outage-at-cabell-library.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/power-outage-at-cabell-library.html Archive Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:54:11 -0500 Election Resource Guide. It provides information on the 2008 Presidential Election, the background and history of elections, and Virginia resources. The Guide also has links for additional articles, databases and books. A link is provided to the State Board of Elections.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/election-resource-guide-availa-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/election-resource-guide-availa-1.html Archive Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:19:44 -0500 Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences 509 North 12th Street Richmond, VA 23298-0582 804-828-0636 November 1, 2008 - January 28, 2009 Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will sponsor the traveling exhibit "Opening Doors: Contemporary African-American Academic Surgeons" from November 1, 2008 to January 28, 2009. The exhibit, developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, celebrates the achievements of African American pioneers in academic surgery and those that continue the tradition today. Print the Flyer!]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/tml-exhibit-opening-doors-afri-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/tml-exhibit-opening-doors-afri-1.html Archive Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:13:19 -0500 Monday - Tuesday, Oct 27-28, 2008 James Branch Cabell Library, 2nd Floor 901 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23284 804-828-1105 The Friends of the Library Half Price Book Sale has been extended! Shop for great bargains on Monday and Tuesday, Oct 27 - 28, 2008. Hardcover books are $1 and paperbacks only $.50! All proceeds help fund VCU Libraries' programs, collections, and lectures. Cash, check or major credit cards accepted. More information about the Book Sale and other Friends of the Library events is available on the Special Events page. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/half-price-book-sale-extended-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/half-price-book-sale-extended-1.html Archive Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:08:15 -0500 Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library's Services in Times of Disaster Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Distance Education Classroom, Room 2-010, Tompkins-McCaw Library Tompkins-McCaw Library is hosting the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast, "Survival Tips and Stories: Expanding the Library's Services in Times of Disaster" on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Distance Education Classroom, Room 2-010. The goal of this program is to provide a basic understanding of disaster planning and service continuity, assess the effect of disasters on health sciences library services, and provide a basic template for disaster planning. Continuing education credit available. Advanced registration is required to receive CE credit. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available online. For more information, please contact Shannon Jones, (804) 828-0626. For a full list of library instruction classes on both campuses, visit VCU Libraries Events . ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/mla-webcast-survival-tips-and.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/mla-webcast-survival-tips-and.html Archive Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:01:17 -0500 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m James Cabell Branch Library VCU Libraries is hosting an Authors' Reception celebrating Alex Lorch and Beth Marschak, authors of Lesbian and Gay Richmond. The celebration will be Wednesday, October 29, 2008 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, 4th floor. Mr. Lorch will present a brief historical overview of the Richmond lesbian and gay community at 5:30 pm. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public. To R.S.V.P. or request special accommodations, please call Sarah Amick at (804) 828-4640 prior to Monday, October 27, 2008. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. The reception is generously sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library. More information about Friends of the Library events is available at Special Events . James Branch Cabell Library 901 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23284 804-828-1105]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/authors-reception-celebrating.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/authors-reception-celebrating.html Archive Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:42:52 -0500 James Branch Cabell Library Library Instruction Classroom, third floor Wednesday, October 22nd, 12 - 1 p.m. The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with hands-on experience in using the more advanced features of PsycINFO. It will cover how to personalize the database to save successful searches, create search alerts (the saved search is always running and notifications are sent via email or through RSS when any new items are found), and how to create folders for organization by project or class. It will also cover how to properly export citations from PsycINFO into RefWorks. For more information on this workshop and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/psycinfo-advanced-workshop-on.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/psycinfo-advanced-workshop-on.html Archive Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:40:37 -0500 James Branch Cabell Library Library Instruction Classroom, third floor Wednesday, October 15, 2 p.m. Monday, October 20, 1 p.m. VCU Libraries offers Research Survival Workshops for new and returning students, faculty or staff. These quick sessions offers an introduction or refresher on searching the library's Web resources for books and articles to support a research topic. Librarians will demonstrate the Catalog and journal databases including Academic Search Complete. This workshop runs 50 minutes, including time for questions. All are welcome. No registration required. For more information on this workshop and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page. Additional resources or learning library research skills can be found online including the Undergraduate Research Toolkit, Distance Learner's Toolkit, and Resource Guides devoted to topic areas such as Biological Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology, History, Art Education, and many others. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/cabell-library-offers-addition-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/cabell-library-offers-addition-1.html Archive Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:01 -0500 VCU Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale! The sale takes place October 20-24, 2008, on the 2nd floor of James Branch Cabell Library. Books of many genres are available including history, art, medicine, fiction, comic arts, music and more. All proceeds from the Friends of the Library Book Sale help to fund VCU Libraries' programs, collections, and lectures.
2008 Book Sale Hours Monday, October 20: Noon -- 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 21: 9 a.m. -- 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 22: 9 a.m. -- 8 p.m. Thursday, October 23: 9 a.m. -- 8 p.m. Friday, October 24: 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m. (Half-price sale day) Preview Sale for Friends of the Library Donors Monday, October 20: 9 a.m.-Noon (Present your Friends card for admission to the preview sale.) James Branch Cabell Library 901 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23284 804-828-1105 Paperbacks $1 Hardcover $2
Cash, check or major credit cards accepted. More information about the Book Sale and other Friends of the Library events is available on the Special Events page.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/friends-of-the-library-book-sa-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/friends-of-the-library-book-sa-1.html Archive Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:39:56 -0500 Monday October 13th from 5:00 am to 7:00 am. During the switchover many of our services will still be available directly at these addresses: Databases AtoZ and by Subject: http://metalib.vccs.edu/V/?func=find-db-1&mode=title VCU Libraries Catalog: http://catalog.library.vcu.edu E-Journals: http://sfx.library.vcu.edu/vcu/a-z/default?perform=textSearch ILLiad Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery: https://illiad.library.vcu.edu/illiad/ Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu/ Electronic Theses and Dissertations: https://digarchive.library.vcu.edu/ ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/library-web-server-availabilit.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/library-web-server-availabilit.html Archive Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500 available online.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/vcucards-needed-to-enter-cabel-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/10/vcucards-needed-to-enter-cabel-1.html Archive Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:51:38 -0500 Friday, October 10, 2008 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. James Branch Cabell Library Library Instruction Classroom, third floor In this workshop, teaching faculty will learn how to: -Share images with students and colleagues through ARTstor folders, e-mail and courseware such as Blackboard. -Upload and manage your own images in ARTstor personal collections. -Discover the ease of making presentations with the Offline Image Viewer. -Download high resolution images for use in PowerPoint. This workshop is open to faculty, staff and graduate students. Please contact Kristina Keogh at 828-6339 for additional information. For a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/teaching-with-artstor-workshop-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/teaching-with-artstor-workshop-1.html Archive Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:12:05 -0500 Knovel Library has chosen VCU students to participate in the Knovel University Challenge running Sept. 29 until Dec. 1, 2008. Knovel Library is a property and interactive database for engineering, chemistry, material science, environmental science, and microelectronic materials. To participate in the challenge, students can visit www.info.knovel.com/challenge. To play, search Knovel and correctly answer three engineering questions. Prizes include 2 Nintendo Wiis, 3 iPod Nanos, and 6 iTunes gift cards. Universities with 100 entries or more are guaranteed entry into a contest-within-the-contest ensuring that 1 student participant with 3 correct answers will be the winner of an iPod Nano. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/knovel-library-database-challe.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/knovel-library-database-challe.html Archive Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:12:25 -0500 American Library Association Promotes Banned Books Week Banned Books Week Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27 - October 4, 2008
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW's 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4). BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met. BBW is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of American Publishers, National Association of College Stores, and is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The American Library Association offers more information on Banned Book Week, Frequently Challenged Books including the list for 2007, and the History of Book Burning on their Web site. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/american-library-association-p.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/american-library-association-p.html Archive Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:15:59 -0500 VCU Libraries Study Spaces on the Web. For additional information, please contact:
Cabell Library, Research and Instructional Services: 828-1101 Tompkins-McCaw Library, User Services, 828-0636
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/study-spaces-at-the-vcu-librar-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/study-spaces-at-the-vcu-librar-1.html Archive Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:13:35 -0500 Research Survival Workshops James Branch Cabell Library Library Instruction Classroom, third floor
September 26, 10 a.m. September 29, 4 p.m. October 1, 3 p.m. October 3, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. October 4, 11 a.m. October 7, 1 p.m. October 10, 10 a.m.
VCU Libraries offers Research Survival Workshops for new and returning students, faculty or staff. These quick sessions offers an introduction or refresher on searching the library's Web resources for books and articles to support a research topic. Librarians will demonstrate the Catalog and journal databases including Academic Search Complete. This workshop runs 50 minutes, including time for questions. All are welcome. No registration required. For more information on this workshop and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page. Additional resources or learning library research skills can be found online including the Undergraduate Research Toolkit, Distance Learner's Toolkit, and Resource Guides devoted to topic areas such as Biological Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology, History, Art Education, and many others. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/cabell-library-offers-research-1.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/cabell-library-offers-research-1.html Archive Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:31 -0500 New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. The award, administered by ALA's Public Information Office and Campaign for America's Libraries, encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of librarians who have helped enrich their educational and/or succeed in their research endeavors. Nominations for librarians in college, community college and university libraries opened on September 2 and run through October 15. Up to 10 librarians in public, school and academic libraries will be honored at a ceremony and reception in New York at TheTimesCenter, hosted by The New York Times. Each winner also will receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and a $500 travel stipend to attend the awards reception. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award winner's library. Each nominee must be a librarian with a master's degree from a program accredited by the ALA in library and information studies or a master's degree with a specialty in school library media from an educational unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Nominees must be currently working in the United States at an accredited two- or four-year college or university. For more information, including the online nomination form and tools to help promote the award, visit www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/the-i-love-my-librarian-award.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/the-i-love-my-librarian-award.html Archive Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0500 September 15 through 19, 2008
Full schedule of events can be found online: www.library.vcu.edu/constitution/ This month, Virginia Commonwealth University joins campuses across the nation in commemorating the September 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution. VCU's week-long series of events and programming is designed to promote greater awareness of this extraordinary document and to foster reflection upon its principles, which continue to influence our daily lives more than two hundred years after its ratification. Upcoming VCU events from September 15-19 include the new Constitution Day Lecture series, featuring: The Constitution: Relevant for 200 years. Now are there dangers on the horizon? Stephen McCullough, State Solicitor General for Virginia Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Forum Room, University Student Commons Stephen McCullough is the State Solicitor General for Virginia. The State Solicitor General is part of the Attorney General's Office and represents Virginia's interests in the United States Supreme Court. His responsibilities also include defending Virginia laws from constitutional challenge. Over the years, Mr. McCullough has represented Virginia in a wide range of civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts. This past January, Mr. McCullough argued Virginia v. Moore in the United States Supreme Court. In April, the Court decided the case unanimously in Virginia's favor. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and of the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with moderator Tom De Haven (VCU) and guest M. Thomas Inge (Randolph Macon) Thursday, September 18th, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Grace E. Harris Hall, Auditorium (Room 101) David Hajdu is the author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America and two other books, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina. He will discuss the federal crackdown on comic books that occurred during the 1950s and led to decades of self-censorship under the so-called Comics Code Authority. More information on David Hajdu is available online. The discussion will be moderated by VCU's own Tom De Haven, author of It's Superman!, Funny Papers, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, and other comic-themed works. Guest speaker will be M. Thomas Inge of Randolph-Macon College, editor of the Handbook of American Popular Culture and author of Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip. The entire schedule for the week-long series of events can be found online at www.library.vcu.edu/constitution/. Questions? Contact Renee Bosman at 828-8978. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/constitution-day-2008-week-lon.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/constitution-day-2008-week-lon.html Archive Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:54 -0500 VCU Libraries' Thesis and Dissertation Information page. The list on the Website is not an endorsement of the sources, but they are all establishments that can bind copies for students. The VCU Libraries and the VCU Graduate School look forward to developing VCU's archive of electronic theses and dissertations, and to keeping VCU competitive with other higher education institutions in helping students with their theses and dissertations.]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/thesis-and-dissertation-bindin.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2008/09/thesis-and-dissertation-bindin.html Archive Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Friday, September 12
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
James Branch Cabell Library
Library Instruction Classroom, third floor

Tell us what you think and you may win a prize.

From April 1st through 30th, VCU Libraries is conducting an online survey of VCU students, faculty, and staff on library service quality called LibQual+. Survey respondents provide essential information to VCU Libraries to use in meeting user needs for resources and services. Your help is greatly appreciated and a great prize could be won in return!

VCU students, faculty, and staff may take the survey now or anytime throughout the month of April. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey.

Participation in the LibQual+ survey is voluntary. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in the survey. All responses are confidential.

45 prizes will be awarded to VCU survey takers. To win, complete the survey and enter an email address at the end of the survey. Winners will be selected by a drawing at the end of the survey period. Prizes include a Nintendo Wii and 9 iPod nanos. View the complete list of prizes and rules for winning online.

Learn more about the LibQual+ 2008 survey at VCU in the LibQual+ 2008 FAQ. Results from our 2006 LibQual+ Survey are available.

For information and/or assistance, contact Susanna Pathak, Planning & Assessment Librarian, at (804) 827-1164.

What is National Library Week?
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.

In the mid-1950s, research showed that Americans were spending less on books and more on radios, televisions and musical instruments. Concerned that Americans were reading less, the ALA and the American Book Publishers formed a nonprofit citizens organization called the National Book Committee in 1954. The committee's goals were ambitious. They ranged from "encouraging people to read in their increasing leisure time" to "improving incomes and health" and "developing strong and happy family life."

In 1957, the committee developed a plan for National Library Week based on the idea that once people were motivated to read, they would support and use libraries. With the cooperation of ALA and with help from the Advertising Council, the first National Library Week was observed in 1958 with the theme "Wake Up and Read!"

National Library Week was observed again in 1959, and the ALA Council voted to continue the annual celebration. When the National Book Committee disbanded in 1974, ALA assumed full sponsorship.

Library Lite All Nite
24/5 Hours
April 20 - May 9, 2008
James Branch Cabell Library

The James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week during exams. This expanded service is called Library Lite All Nite.

From Sunday, April 20 through Friday, May 9, Cabell doors will open at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday and remain open until our regular Friday evening closing time at 9pm. Saturday hours will remain unchanged during Library Lite All Nite - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This service will provide 24/5 access to the library building and offer Circulation and Information services, individual study on the 3rd and 4th floors, group study in designated areas, and computerized resources including the library catalog, databases, Internet access, and Microsoft Office applications. The B-8 Computer Lab will also be open during the 24/5 hours.

Sunday through Thursday nights, all patrons entering James Branch Cabell Library after 10 p.m. are required to show VCUCards to gain admittance. A complete listing of operational hours for Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library is available online.

For more information about Library Lite All Nite and for a complete listing of available services, please visit this Web site.

VCU Libraries is honored to present these rare examples of the incomparable art work of the late Will Eisner. In an effort to encourage soldiers to keep better care of their equipment, the US Army hired Eisner's American Visuals Corporation to do a digest-sized publication focusing on preventive maintenance. Each issue consisted of a color comic book style cover; eight pages of four color comic continuity story in the middle; and a wealth of technical, safety, and policy information printed in two color. Eisner drew and was artistic editor for PS Magazine from its inception in 1951 until 1972. Presented here are complete scans for 145 regular issues, 3 special issues, and 14 index issues.

Students may take courses from three days to eight weeks in length. All ICPSR Summer Program courses are available on a non-credit basis, and many four-week courses are available for graduate credit. Courses on Bayesian modeling and game theory are now available.

The program is reasonably priced, and fees are reduced for scholars affiliated with an ICPSR Member Institution, including VCU students. The deadline for applying to the program is April 28, 2008. For more information about the program, including the full course catalog, costs, and online application, please see the Summer Program Website. Print brochures are also available in the VCU Libraries main lobby area (under the plasma monitor near the book drop). You may also contact the VCU ICPSR Official Representative, Jennifer Darragh for more information.

Tell us what you think and you may win a prize.

From April 1st through 30th, VCU Libraries is conducting an online survey of VCU students, faculty, and staff on library service quality called LibQual+. Survey respondents provide essential information to VCU Libraries to use in meeting user needs for resources and services. Your help is greatly appreciated and a great prize could be won in return!

VCU students, faculty, and staff may take the survey now or anytime throughout the month of April. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey.

Participation in the LibQual+ survey is voluntary. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in the survey. All responses are confidential.

45 prizes will be awarded to VCU survey takers. To win, complete the survey and enter an email address at the end of the survey. Winners will be selected by a drawing at the end of the survey period. Prizes include a Nintendo Wii and 9 iPod nanos. View the complete list of prizes and rules for winning online.

Learn more about the LibQual+ 2008 survey at VCU in the LibQual+ 2008 FAQ. Results from our 2006 LibQual+ Survey are available.

For information and/or assistance, contact Susanna Pathak, Planning & Assessment Librarian, at (804) 827-1164.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Richmond Salons, University Student Commons, Monroe Park Campus
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, MCV Campus
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch is available to participants on each campus. Participants can register to win a chance at prizes including 20 iPods, an iPod touch, and other great prizes. For more information, contact at Shannon Jones or 804-828-0626.

This event is sponsored by the VCU Libraries and VCU Technology Services.

A Party of Poets - Celebrating the Work of Virginia's Poets

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Richmond Salons, VCU Student Commons

Keynote speaker: Ellen Bryant Voigt
Panelists: Buffy Morgan, Debra Nystrom, Lucinda Roy, Ron Smith and David Wojahn
Moderator: Mary Flinn, senior editor for the online literary journal Blackbird

Virginia is home to a distinguished community of poets and a rich body of poetry recognized by many national prizes and international distinction. Join Ellen Bryant Voigt and our panel of poets from across the Commonwealth to celebrate Virginia poetry and explore the roots of Virginia's extraordinary contributions to the tradition of American verse.

The 22nd Annual James Branch Cabell Lecture is sponsored by the VCU Libraries, the Friends of the Library, and the James Branch Cabell Library Associates.

Free and open to the public. Book signing and reception will follow the lecture. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. Directions to the Monroe Park Campus are available online. If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 827-1165 or 827-1163 prior to April 4, 2008.

The VCU Health Literacy Special Interest Group will be meeting Wednesday, March 19 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, in the first floor Conference Room behind Skull & Beans. All who are interested are welcome to attend and also to join the special interest group which meets about three times a year.

If you would like to attend the March 19 meeting or receive more information, please contact Jean Shipman or Sarah Amick, 804-828-4640.

Please join the VCU Libraries as it celebrates the contributions that MCV Campus book authors have made to the scholarly literature. This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the Patient/Visitor parking deck. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 827-1165 or 827-1163 by March 21, 2008. Sponsored by VCU Friends of the Library.

Beginning the week of March 3, the large group study room on the first floor of Cabell Library will be closed temporarily for renovations. VCU Libraries is adding technology resources to this space to support students with the development of presentations and other collaborative work. The goal of the renovations project is to provide students the ability to both practice and record presentations. When the renovations are completed, the room will contain the following:

• a motorized screen and projector
• a podium with a microphone and touch panel control system
• wall-mounted camera and speakers

For those seeking alternative locations for group study, additional study rooms are available on the third floor. The Linden Group Study Zone on the second floor is also available for group study.

We regret any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to improve the Libraries' collaborative work spaces.

• Goodwin Research Laboratory, Massey Cancer Center, Room 131
• R. Blackwell Smith Building, Room 350
• Main Hospital Building, VCU Health System, The Learning Center,1st floor across from The Three Bears Gift shop
• Sanger Hall, Room B1-020

Offerings range from Keeping Current with your Research, where you will learn valuable tips to help make your research more efficient, to RefWorks a citation management tool that allows you to easily create and manage your own personal research database. A complete listing of classes is available online.

For more information about Spring classes, contact Thelma Mack at 828-0017.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:30 p.m. W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts

VCU Libraries will host a Webcast on the institutional issues involved with compliance with the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. This Webcast will explore the legal aspects of author rights management within the context of the new policy that will be effective April 7, 2008. The policy will have many benefits for research institutions, including better documentation of publications resulting from funded research. However, institutions confront a key set of issues raised by the need to ensure that authors maintain the legal rights required to allow compliance with the new policy.

The intended audience for this Webcast is vice presidents of research, administrators and staff in funded research and grants offices, campus compliance officers, and others who will be responsible for fulfilling their organizations compliance obligations as NIH grantees. The Webcast is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and the National Association of State University and Land-Grant Colleges. For more information, visit the ARL Web site.

No registration is necessary.

Contact Lynne Turman, 828-0638, for special accommodations or additional information.

For more information and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

Don't have a VCU eID?
Contact Shannon D. Jones at 804-828-0626 to register.

Join the VCU Libraries for the next GIS Discussion Forum featuring Chris Delcher, analyst biostatistician for Virginia Health Information (VHI) and Carrie Dolan, epidemiologist for the Virginia Department of Health. This presentation will highlight how VHI and VDH have used GIS to enhance epidemiologic capacity.

The VCU GIS Discussion Forum is open to all individuals interested in the use of GIS to better understand geographic relationships and how they impact health outcomes, public health risks, disease transmission, access to health care and other public health concerns. Seating for this session is limited; advance registration is encouraged. Interested in joining the GIS Discussion Forum? Contact Irene Lubker at 804-828-2004.

For more information and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

Friday, February 8
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
James Branch Cabell Library, Room 320

Technology Services is offering a workshop on how to work with and convert video to different formats on Friday, February 8th from 9 a.m. to noon in Cabell Library, Room 320. Topics include the basics of how to get video from the video camera to the computer and from the computer to a DVD or file, or to convert one video format to another. Emphasis on no cost solutions. This workshop is being led by Ken Hopson, Manager of Cabell Libraries Media and Reserve Services department.

Seating is limited, register online.

For more information and a full list of library instruction classes and events on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Virginia Commonwealth University
VCU Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballrooms, 2nd Floor
907 Floyd Ave

Women played a pivotal but often unrecognized role in the Civil Rights movement. Join us to honor their contributions in a panel discussion with Richmond's own Ora Lomax, Elizabeth Johnson Rice, and Hilda Warden; moderated by Bonnie Winston. The sixth annual VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library.

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 827-1163 prior to February 8, 2008.

Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.

For the most current information about library hours on the Monroe Park Campus, please visit the VCU Libraries Web site. If you have questions, please contact Research and Instructional Services at 804-828-1101 or 866-828-6665.

Please refer to the VCU Libraries' Web site for a complete listing of hours.

For more information about these tours and other VCU Libraries events, visit the events page.

Orientation Tour Schedule:

Wednesday, January 16
1:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 17
10:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Friday, January 18
1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 22
11:30 a.m.
2:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 23
9:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 24
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.

VCU Libraries recommends using Academic OneFile, a subset of General OneFile, when you are unsure of which subject-specific database to use to look for articles from scholarly publications. Academic OneFile is an excellent sampler database containing references to more than 24 million items published in scholarly journals. It covers most academic disciplines, specializing in none.

Tuesday, January 15, 3-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 16, 4-4:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 17, 6-6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 22, 12-12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 23, 12-12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 23, 6-6:30 p.m.
Cabell Library, Library Instruction Classroom, third floor

Cabell Library will present six demonstrations of RefWorks, a Web-based citation management tool, during the first two weeks of classes. The workshops will be in the Library Instruction Classroom on the third floor and will cover managing citations and creating bibliographies.

For more information and a full list of library instruction classes on both campuses, visit the VCU Libraries Events page.