Digital Specialist Condon receives Staff Senate award for advocacy
VCU Libraries’ Digital Specialist Katie Condon received the 2025 Executive Award for Staff Advocacy from the VCU Staff Senate. The Award was announced in March at the annual Career Development Conference sponsored jointly by VCU Human Resources and Staff Senate. The Staff Senate represents employees on the VCU and VCU Health campuses, and it advocates for their professional […]
VCU Libraries’ student worker shapes open ed Initiative, builds real-world skills
Service to students in advocating and creating free or low-cost textbooks is the core purpose of VCU Libraries Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative (OACC). What is not widely known is that student voices and the labor of student employees is a vital voice in the work. Since the start of the Open and Affordable […]
VCU librarians present cutting-edge sessions at major academic conference
VCU Libraries will be well represented in April at The Association of College & Research Libraries annual conference in Minneapolis. The conference will address current trends and challenges in librarianship. Work prepared by five VCU librarians will be presented in sessions in this well-respected, peer-reviewed event. Representing nearly 8,500 individuals and libraries, ACRL is the […]
Open Ed Resouces: VIVA publishes community and public nursing foundational text
VIVA has published a new Open Educational Resource that was initiated two years ago in an experimental creation process designed to more efficiently and quickly develop academic resources. The book, Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action was authored by eight people, including VCU Libraries liaison to the VCU School of Nursing Roy […]
Katharine Miller receives Library Copyright Institute fellowship
Scholarly Communications Librarian Katharine Miller has received a fellowship through the Library Copyright Institute, funded by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services The fellowship contributes to the work of The Library Copyright Institute in providing copyright education for library and archive professionals. The fellowship offers a stipend of $5,000 to research and […]
Revived Staff Organization speaks for staff concerns and advocates for professional development
This fiscal year, for the first time since 2014, the staff employed by VCU Libraries had an active organization within the governance structure to specifically represent the staff voice. VCU Libraries had a Staff Organization for a number of years, originally called Staff Association. It disbanded in 2014. After a 2021 Shared Governance Task Force […]
Voices of Giving Day: Making waves in education with strategic giving
Leslie Brown, a leader in higher education with a rich background spanning 25 years, has left an indelible mark on institutions such as New York University and the American Museum of Natural History. In her current VCU role as a special assistant for special projects to the Senior VP & CFO, Brown continues to showcase […]
Back to the Stacks 2024: Join us for the VCU Libraries Student Worker Reunion May 4
Save the date of Saturday, May 4, 2024 for the third annual VCU Libraries Student Worker Reunion! Last year’s event included student workers from the 1970’s to 2019. Student workers from both James Branch Cabell Library and the Health Sciences Library (formerly the Tompkins McCaw Library) are encouraged to attend. The event is from 11:30 […]
Public health librarian attends national conference on Sewell Stipend
Since its inception in 2001, the Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund’s Stipend Program has provided funding for librarians to attend either the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Conference or Pharmacy Education, the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). The goal of the Sewell Stipend program is to encourage […]
Stewardship in Action: Dave Morrison is 2023 Building Manager of the Year
VCU has honored VCU Libraries Facilities Director Dave Morrison as the 2023 Monroe Park Campus Building Manager of the Year. The award recognizes building managers who go above and beyond their required responsibilities to serve building tenants and the VCU community and to address the needs of the building(s) they caretake and manage. The honoree […]
