Pathology postdoc receives inaugural VCU Science Communication Award
Sarah Thomas, Ph.D. is the recipient of the inaugural VCU Science Communication Award for her presentation: “An Introduction to Immunofluorescence: There is Light at the End of the Tunnel.” Her presentation was part of the 2019 season of “How To Talks by Postdocs. VCU Libraries. The award is new to the annual speaker series sponsored […]
Seen on a White Board
The technology may be a bit old school but White Boards are among the most popular items at VCU Libraries. Students tend to set up a study area and often use the White Board as a visual barrier to the larger room to help focus their attention on their studies. A common courtesy is to […]
Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club will read “Savage Appetites” by Rachel Monroe
The public is invited to join us on Sunday, January 26th at 2 p.m. in the Cabell Room of VCU’s James Branch Cabell Library to discuss “Savage Appetites: Four Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession” by Rachel Monroe. From the Simon and Schuster website: “In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe […]
Dr. Richard Wenzel to lead Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club Nov. 3
Join us for the second Friends of VCU Libraries Book Club meeting Sunday, November 3. The meeting is at 2 p.m. in the Cabell Room on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library. Severance is the featured book. Written by Ling Ma, it is the 2019 winner of the Cabell First Novelist Award. Severance is […]
Letter from a president found in donated book
Every year people donate thousands of books to VCU Libraries for the annual Friends of VCU Libraries Book Sale. The books arrive in varying conditions – neatly boxed, haphazardly bagged, occasionally packed into an old suitcase. Every now and then, mementos and odds and ends are donated along with them. A collection was donated this […]
October Book Sale Forecast: Great Finds to Be Found!
While summer temps have sizzled the Friends of VCU Libraries Book Sale Committee have been hard at work in the basement of the Cabell Library sorting books for the October Book Sale. Twice a month volunteers come to campus and sort books in a tucked away area of the library affectionately known to faculty and […]
Communications Awards 2018
Springtime is the season of public relations and communications awards. These honors were received in spring 2018, for work done in 2017-18. Academic Library Advancement and Development Network — a professional network of academic library fundraising professionals — announced its Communications Competition winners at its May conference. VCU Libraries received an award in the Stewardship Materials category […]