ChatSeptember 16, 2014 — Girl Scouting in Virginia will receive special recognition this week when a Virginia Historic Marker is unveiled honoring the first African-American troop in the Commonwealth.
March 28, 2014 — Technology Services and VCU Libraries present the 2014 VCU Tech Fair on Tuesday, April 8, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Richmond Salons University Student Commons and on Wednesday, April 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences. The event Features "hands-on" demos, presentations, free light lunch and giveaways.
May 20, 2014 — Open training sessions will help launch the VCU Scholars Compass, a publishing and repository platform for the intellectual output of VCU’s academic, research, and administrative communities.
September 19, 2014 — VCU Libraries launches digital gallery to display treasures and rare items from Special Collections and Archives.
May 22, 2014 — This has been a landmark year for VCU Libraries for many reasons. The libraries have been busier than ever, with over 30 featured events and exhibits, not including any of the countless library orientations, information sessions, classes and workshops. Estimated total attendance for events alone reached a record-breaking 7,700 people. To everyone in the audience, our sincere thanks for helping to make this such an exciting time in our history.
March 20, 2014 — The university is growing and adapting to new needs in the community, new trends in scholarship and new technology. During VCU Alumni Month, held every April, the university celebrates our thousands of inspiring and active alumni through events and activities that look back at our rich history and forward to our future. VCU Libraries celebrates VCU Alumni Month with a variety of events and exhibits highlighting the tremendous diversity and vivacity of the VCU community.
December 18, 2014 — The first batch of books for consideration for the 2015 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is here! We're seeking readers to help us review the books so that we can select the finalists to be sent to the judges for final selection of the winner. All current students, faculty, staff and Friends of VCU Libraries are welcome to participate.
March 20, 2014 — The temporary Cabell Library entrance will open Friday, March 21. Entrance will be in use throughout the construction process, through fall 2015.
September 11, 2014 — VCU Libraries welcomes families to stop by Cabell Library between 1 and 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Library staff will be on hand to discuss details of our new library, the construction process itself and upcoming changes during the year to Cabell Library. You can also learn about services available to your students during construction. Finally, please join us for a half-hour library tour at 2 p.m. We hope you'll stop by!
March 19, 2014 — VCU Libraries supports undergraduate research by providing a digital archive of student work. This service of VCU Libraries is free and open to all undergraduates and their faculty mentors.
January 31, 2014 — VCU Libraries offers a trial use of Psychological Experiments Online through March 27.
May 8, 2014 — Virginia Commonwealth University announced today the acquisition of a Sefer Torah, a powerful symbol and moving presence in Jewish worship and community life. Presented by an alumni couple with deep connections to the university, it will be held and safeguarded by the VCU Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives.
December 5, 2014 — The exam season can feel long and stressful, so treat yourself to a break at Tompkins-McCaw Library Dec. 8 through 11! We have coffee and refreshments as well as chair massages to help you to recharge and do your best on your exams.
April 10, 2014 — Anders Hånell, Ryan Clohessy and Gireesh Reddy are recipients of prizes and best in show honors in "Through the Looking Glass,” a VCU Libraries contest and exhibition of microscopic images created by VCU students, faculty and staff.
November 10, 2014 — A new exhibit at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will display artifacts from Base Hospital 45, a unit of physicians and nurses trained at the Medical College of Virginia who served in France during World War I.
June 5, 2014 — If you've visited Cabell Library in the past 12 months, you've witnessed The Big Shift. You just didn’t know it.
April 10, 2014 — VCU Libraries new blog The Academy debuts today with a column by University Librarian John E. Ulmschneider about the important information being gathered from faculty participating in a current survey about how they approach their research.
January 31, 2014 — VCU Libraries and other on-campus partners will host RVA's first THATCamp March 14-15.
November 20, 2014 — Sanger Series: Lawrence Tabak Report and Video
October 9, 2014 — New this fall, you may check out books from the Study Skills Collection and Test Prep section on the first floor of Cabell Library. Previously, these materials, were only for use inside the building. Now, many may be checked out for three-day loans.
March 7, 2014 — Cabell Library reduces hours during spring break.
December 19, 2014 — Shaka Smart is poster image for VCU Libraries. Want a poster? Become a donor or a higher-level donor.
September 30, 2014 — The Oct. 1 panel event "After You Hit 'Submit'! : Scientific Publishing from the Journal's Perspective" has changed venues. It will be held in the Commons Theater on the first floor of the VCU Student Commons at 907 Floyd Ave. from 1 to 3 p.m.
September 12, 2014 — Researchers are invited to attend an upcoming panel titled "After You Hit 'Submit'! : Scientific Publishing from the Journal's Perspective" on Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Commons Theater of the VCU Student Commons. Learn the role of publishers and editors, then get answers to your publishing questions from a panel of experts: a publisher, three VCU editors, and a student author! Register at: http://bit.ly/hitsubmit
December 2, 2014 — Scholars Compass exceeds 50,000 downloads mark.
September 19, 2014 — Open-access publishing platform offers thousands of scholarly articles, research findings and data to the public for free.
September 23, 2014 — Panel of experts to answer VCU academc community's questions about publishing in science jornals.
October 31, 2014 — The Special Collections and Archives department will be closed Dec. 8-Jan. 20
July 29, 2014 — The Special Collections and Archives Department at James Branch Cabell Library will be closed 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.
June 6, 2014 — Special Collections and Archives on the fourth floor will be closed Friday and Monday, June 20 and 23. Staff in that department will be moving their offices to the third floor to open space for construction.
June 18, 2014 — We are currently planning our library events for the 2013–14 academic year. It will be another busy year, made even busier than usual by the major construction project going on at Cabell Library, and we expect to offer a great, full lineup of free, public programs to spark dialogue in the community.
April 9, 2014 — The next Sanger Series lecture features Stanford University's John Willinsky on "Intellectual Property."
March 4, 2014 — Advance Your Research sessions set for March 19.
January 16, 2014 — Radio host Grete Dollitz bequeathed to the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries a collection of rare guitar CD recordings, sheet music, her entire collection of WCVE-FM radio programs and at least 1,000 LPs, including an album autographed by classical guitarist Andrés Segovia.
April 7, 2014 — The first week of April is National Public Health Week, organized by the American Public Health Association. In support of this week of focus, a VCU Libraries social media campaign [A Healthy You] showcases free and available online resources prepared by librarians and through community partnerships.
March 6, 2014 — Printer center on first floor Cabell scheduled for shutdown March 7-14
July 24, 2014 — VCU Libraries receives awards for 2013-14 public relations materials.
May 15, 2014 — Cabell Library will be closed on Saturday and that TML will not open until 1 p.m. on Saturday. Both libraries will experience planned power outages on May 17.
February 26, 2014 — The Center for Teaching Excellence, Online @VCU, VCU Libraries and the Instructional Technology Advisory Group sponsor openVCU, a three-part symposium to generate dialogue about open education, teaching, learning and scholarship. More
August 18, 2014 — Tompkins-McCaw Library to hold open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, and Thursday, Aug. 21.
January 6, 2014 — The VCU Office of Research and VCU Libraries will launch The Sanger Series in 2014, a new speaker series designed to address ethical issues and trends that affect research, scholarship and creative expression
August 14, 2014 — Users will see many changes at the libraries this fall.
April 24, 2014 — Knott elected to national board directorship.
January 8, 2014 — The Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences invites you to enter your best microscopic images into "Through the Looking Glass: A Microscopic Image Contest." Selected images will be displayed in the gallery at Tompkins-McCaw Library and will be eligible for cash prizes.
October 13, 2014 — Medicovan, the monthy newsletter for the MCV Campus from 1948-73 has now been added to the digital collection VCU News Publications. This collection also includes VCU Today, VCU Voice, VCU News, and UniverCity News--all of which were official university news sources.
December 1, 2014 — Cabell's fourth floor Mapp Room, which is the space now reserved for graduate students only, closed immediately after fall semester exams. It will remain closed until further notice, likely through the spring semester.
February 22, 2014 — Are you up for a challenge? VCU is holding a campus-wide, social media scavenger hunt Feb. 24–28 and VCU Libraries is participating.
August 14, 2014 — Moving materials was a critical component of planning for the new library on the Monroe Park Campus. This fall, patrons will find many changes in the collection locations.
December 22, 2014 — Spring semester tours are set. go.vcu.edu/library-tours
July 24, 2014 — Library Fest set for Aug. 18.
April 15, 2014 — Beginning Monday, April 21, the Academic Learning Commons will extend its hours to 2 a.m. to accommodate end-of-semester crunch students.
June 2, 2014 — Patrons will notice continued noise, activity and movement in Cabell Library in coming days and weeks. Beginning the Week of June 2, expect many changes.
July 9, 2014 — Due to construction-related electrical work that requires scheduled power shut offs, James Branch Cabell Library will be closed on Saturday, July 19, Saturday, July 26, and on Saturday, August 16. Cabell will also close early, at 8 p.m., on Wednesday, July 23.
March 6, 2014 — Social Science Electronic Data Library includes more than 680 health and social science datasets from more than 285 studies all chosen by an expert panel from Sociometrics.
March 6, 2014 — Artists, designers, engineers and innovators can find ideas, inspiration and supplies in the Material ConneXion Database.
March 6, 2014 — The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research is a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It includes specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism and other fields.
December 2, 2014 — Request materials early from Interlibrary Loan.
July 24, 2014 — The VCU Department of English has just announced that the winner of this year's VCU Cabell First Novelist Award is Helene Wecker for The Golem and the Jinni, published by HarperCollins. The novel is a historical fantasy set in turn-of-the-century New York City, charting the unlikely friendship and romance between two mythical characters.
October 23, 2014 — Get into the Halloween spirit. Come to Cabell in costume Oct. 31 for free photos shot against our green screen.
May 14, 2014 — VCU Libraries is one of the largest employers of student workers at VCU. Their work is critical to operations, from working the service desks and cataloging, from reshelving materials to writing and designing promotional materials. VCU Libraries’ graduating class of 2014 represents the same drive and diversity of which the whole university is proud. A full list of library worker graduates is below.
April 21, 2014 — Graduate research posters may now be submitted to VCU Libraries digital archives.
February 17, 2014 — Calling all Girl Scouts in Central Virginia
April 3, 2014 — VCU unveils rare collection of Virginia civil rights protest photographs. Freedom Now Project asks for the public's help in learning details about people, protests
August 15, 2014 — Free delivery services now offered.
June 6, 2014 — Due to construction and moving, Cabell's fourth floor is not very quiet these days.
December 10, 2014 — While juggling major projects such as the construction of the new building at Cabell Library, we managed to offer approximately 25 different public programs this semester, not including private functions or any of our numerous regularly scheduled tours and instructional sessions.
April 21, 2014 — Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey extended to April 25 to invite more participation from faculty. University Librarian John Ulmschneider writes about the data's importance in The Academy.
April 4, 2014 — What do faculty need in the digital age? VCU faculty to participate in survey April 7-18. Data will inform strategic decision-making.
December 19, 2014 — Poster series celebrates diversity, culture and identity.
December 27, 2013 — Free posters celebrate diversity, identity and culture
February 20, 2014 — The dynamism of the digital age creates myriad challenges and opportunities for creators, scholars and researchers alike. It is changing everything about scholarship, from the kind of information we delve into to the ways in which we present it. The newest panel from the VCU Libraries’ Digital Pragmata series investigates how scholarship in the humanities can best respond to this intersection.
January 15, 2014 — Degas book illustrations on view through Feb. 28
November 20, 2014 — Data Management Bootcamp Jan. 7-9 kicks off a big year for big data at VCU.
November 24, 2014 — The Art of Journalism is a new exhibition that features the Commonwealth Times' talented illustrators and journalist-artists.
March 20, 2014 — New website keeps track of construction activity, progress and noise alerts. Bookmark it.
August 14, 2014 — The center of the Monroe Park Campus looks quite different than it did at the end of the spring semester.
February 26, 2014 — The back racks on the southeast side of the atrium will be moved March 10. Don't park there.
January 15, 2014 — The new library on the Monroe Park Campus is inching closer to reality. Here is the preliminary construction timeline.
June 27, 2014 — University News features Comic Arts Collection
April 14, 2014 — Just when students were getting to that frantic stage--deeply involved in projects and papers with exams on the horizon--Cabell Library Undergraduate Advisory Committee (CLUAC) and the Friends of VCU Libraries hosted a study break to help students recharge.
August 19, 2014 — For a chance to help make a difference at VCU Libraries, apply to be a member of CLUAC.
November 13, 2014 — Free study break set for Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m., Cabell Library, fourth floor.
October 22, 2014 — ClinicalKey is now your major source for evidence-based practice information on the go. It is available 24/7 from classrooms to clinics.
September 11, 2014 — Join us for the fall annual Cabell Life Forum, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Cabell Library Multipurpose Room (room #250). Students will gather for an open forum to learn more about current construction updates, the new library fee and other items of note. Attendees are invited to bring questions, ideas, concerns, their friends and an appetite; refreshments will be provided.
April 2, 2014 — Students will gather for an open forum on VCU Libraries Thursday, April 3, 5 to 6 p.m., in Room 250 at James Branch Cabell Library.
February 5, 2014 — Construction at Cabell Update: Starting Friday, Feb. 7, crews will begin setting up a safe construction area on the east of James Branch Cabell Library.
April 9, 2014 — James Branch Cabell, the namesake of Cabell Library, remains an inspiration to writers and artists many years after his death. April 14 is his birthday. On the occasion of his 135th birthday, VCU Libraries unveils a new research guide and information packages about Mr. Cabell. Please enjoy and explore. Also look for social media about Mr. Cabell all week.
October 9, 2014 — Q&A with your business librarians: Bettina Peacemaker and Pattie Sobczak on trends, technology, leading, collaborating, publishing, collecting and researching in today's 24/7 business world.
April 22, 2014 — BrowZine allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals -- all in a format optimized for your iPad or Android tablet.
November 3, 2014 — Armory exhibit offers insight into black-white Richmond.
September 24, 2014 — VCU Libraries repeats its well-received day of walk-in workshops for graduate students and advanced researchers on Wednesday, Oct. 14, Room 250, Cabell Library.
July 24, 2014 — Scientists around the world, including many at VCU, are working to understand addiction to prevent, diagnose and treat it. Now, a VCU Libraries effort is building an information infrastructure for a forward-thinking global program.
June 19, 2014 — More than 140 images of daily life in Richmond from 1853 to 1901 are available online. Additional resources are found in Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library.
October 23, 2014 — Look, learn and create: The Art Browsery, a dedicated book display on the fourth floor, James Branch Cabell Library, offers new books to inspire creation.