Staff Senate honors Alice Chambliss with career award
The VCU Staff Senate presented Alice Chambliss with the Guiding Star Award for Career Achievement at a ceremony May 25. The award is given to a long-serving staff member — at least 25 years — who dedicated the vast majority of their professional career to providing exemplary support or service to the VCU community. Awardees […]
VCU librarians create free nursing text in pioneering ‘book sprint’
VCU librarians participated in an inaugural statewide rapid publishing exercise to develop a free and openly licensed nursing textbook. Organized by VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium, the effort tested a new publishing model for Virginia for the creation of high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are free to access and have licensing that allows for […]
New research librarian serves School of Pharmacy
As of spring semester 2023, as a Research and Education Librarian, Jessica Jones works to support the research and educational needs of the students, faculty, and staff on the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus. In her role as liaison to the VCU School of Pharmacy, Jones will engage directly with School of Pharmacy faculty, […]
New to VCU: Samantha Guss supports public health programs
As of spring semester 2023, as a Research and Education Librarian, Samantha Guss supports public health programs. This is a new focus for the position and is designed to meet the growing needs of VCU’s burgeoning public health programs including those long established through the School of Medicine and those developing in other disciplines such […]
Brown serves on futures task force for Medical Library Association anniversary
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is celebrating its 125th Anniversary in May 2023. As part of this celebration, the MLA board of directors created several task forces, each building on the MLA strategic goal, Building a Better Future. The task forces are to build upon MLA’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in supporting the […]
Librarians at Work: ARL Fall meeting
VCU was well represented this week at the fall meeting of the Association of Research Libraries in Washington. The Association of Research Libraries is a membership organization of libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies and large public institutions in Canada and the US. ARL advocates on research libraries’ behalf, […]
VCU’s Knott moderates panel at National Library of Medicine symposium
Teresa L. Knott, MLS, MPA, AHIP, FMLA, of VCU Libraries is among an august group invited to participate at the National Library of Medicine’s Lindberg-King Lecture & Scientific Symposium: Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D. on Thursday, September 1, 2022, via NIH Videocast. Knott, who has long been active in national health […]
VCU Libraries data expert named to National Center for Data Services post
Nina Exner has been appointed to a new national position as an ambassador of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) National Center for Data Services (NCDS) The NNLM National Center for Data Services (NCDS) coordinates with other NNLM Regions, Offices, and Centers to provide training and resources to increase data science capacity among […]
Herold named to key national advocacy committee
Dean of Libraries and University Librarian Irene M.H. Herold, Ph.D., has accepted an appointment to serve as a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Advocacy and Public Policy Committee for two years. Her term began Oct. 6 and will end in October 2023. This committee plays important strategic roles in accomplishing the Association’s […]
VCU’s Brody chairs Medical Library Association’s dental caucus
Research and Education Librarian and liaison to the VCU School of Dentistry, Erica Brody, MPH, MSLS, is the new chair of the Medical Library Association (MLA)’s dental caucus. She has completed one year of service as dental caucus chair-elect and begins her term as chair in May 2021, which will be followed by a one […]
