Author Chip Jones to join The Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club to discuss “The Organ Thieves”
The next Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club is set for Sunday, February 21st at 2pm via Zoom. We will discuss “The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South” by Chip Jones. The author will join us for this event. To get the Zoom link to attend, please […]
User Experience Student Internship is nearly funded
User Experience (or UX) is the work of creating websites that are user focused and function for all constituencies that use them. At VCU Libraries, these projects are limited to student advisory groups, student workers, and (when funded) occasional testing with other groups for more in-depth methods of testing.To better serve all constituents, in 2021, […]
Join the Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club via Zoom on January 31st
The next Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club selection is “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” by Marcia Chatelain. We will meet on Sunday, January 31st at 2 pm via Zoom. To get the link to attend, please send an email to kjgotschalk@vcu.edu.About “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” (from publisher W.W.Norton and […]
Zoom Zoom Zooma Zoom
While Zoom (previously best known as a children’s TV show on PBS) has taken on a new meaning to many during the COVD-19 pandemic, VCU Libraries has made good use of the Zoom platform to keep the Friends of VCU Libraries engaged and active while so many of us are at home for safe sheltering […]
Enjoy and support Comic Arts Collection
The VCU Libraries’ Comic Arts Collection began in the 1970s with the donation of a modest comic book collection and the papers of a noted Richmond newspaper editorial cartoonist. The collection later grew with the help of numerous donors over the years – especially that of Dr. M. Thomas Inge, an expert on the history […]
Join the Friends Book Club Dec. 20 via Zoom
The Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club will discuss Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library via Zoom at 2 p.m. Sunday Dec. 20. The event is free and open to the public, please email kjgotschalk@vcu.edu for the link to attend. From the publisher’s website: The Midnight Library is a dazzling novel about all the choices […]
Community Zooming Through the Summer
Most people think of libraries as quiet, sedate places for study and access to information. At VCU Libraries, our Friends of VCU Libraries event series has brought our community together for years around key lectures and events that occur on an annual basis. With the arrival of COVID-19 in March, VCU Libraries was forced to […]
“Scholarship Boy” is the next Friends Book Club Pick
The Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club will meet Sunday, Sept, 6 at 2pm via Zoom. We will discuss Scholarship Boy: Meditations on Family and Race by Larry Palmer. From the publisher’s website: “In 1958, fourteen-year-old Larry Palmer left his parents and nine siblings at home in St. Louis and boarded a train to attend […]
Roberta and Don Miller Embrace Creative Giving to Create a Legacy
Roberta and Don Miller are strong believers in education and greatly value the impact of higher education on their lives. A native of Kentucky, Roberta began her studies as an undergrad at Murray State University and earned a Master’s of Library Science and a Doctor of Education Degree at Vanderbilt University. Don is a native […]
Joan Gaustad (BFA ‘75/A) dedicates space to Gerald Donato and VCU students
Joan Gaustad came to VCU as a student in the early 1970’s. As the child of an Army officer, she lived in Thailand and Europe prior to her arrival on the Monroe Park Campus and her first impressions of Richmond were not terribly positive and she never thought she would remain. All of that changed […]
