Personnel landmarks 2020-21
Promotions Kelsey Cheshire – Assistant ProfessorJessica Kirschner – Assistant ProfessorJanet Reid – Assistant ProfessorStephani (Nia) Rodgers – Assistant ProfessorPatricia Sobczak – Associate Professor Retirements Pam Fraga – Administrative Office Director (15 years)Mary Jane Green – Senior Library Specialist (47 years)Diana Lively – Library Specialist (21 years)Thelma Mack – Senior Library Specialist (14 years)Anita Mallory – […]
Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club to discuss “Someone’s Missing . . .and I think it’s me” on Sept. 19
In connection with the kickoff for VCU Libraries event season, the Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club will discuss “Someone’s Missing . . . and I think it’s me: Our Great Adventure with Dementia” by Joan Gaustad (BFA ’75/Arts.) We will meet in the Cabell Room on the 4th floor of VCU’s Cabell Library on […]
‘Klara and the Sun’ is Summer reading for the Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club
The Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club will meet Sunday , June 27 at 2 p.m. on the third floor Terrace at the Cabell Library. For those who wish to join remotely, we will have an option for you to join via Zoom. The book selected for discussion this month is Klara and the Sun, […]
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 […]
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 […]
