Student design contest — still time to enter!
The Friends of VCU Libraries invite students and recent alumni (2020 – 2024) to submit designs for use on VCU Libraries T-shirt and other promotional materials. Deadline for submission is March 16. The prize is $500. Judging criteria will include: The contest is open to all students– full or part-time, undergraduate or graduate level–and alumni […]
Meet Friends of the Libraries Scholarship recipients
Junior clinical radiation sciences major Evelyn Gomez and senior psychology major Chelsea Rushbrook are the 2024-25 recipients of the Friends of VCU Libraries Scholarships. “The library staff has been incredibly supportive in helping me succeed. One memorable experience was when a librarian visited our class to introduce us to the library’s online resources. Learning how […]
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 […]
March 3-7 marks Open Access Week
Open Education Week, March 3 – 7, is an annual event that celebrates open education and aims to raise awareness about it and highlight efforts around the world. Open education is an approach to teaching and learning that is focused on reducing barriers and promoting equity. Examples of open educational practices include using freely available […]
Tom Robbins (1932-2025): An imaginative life
A creative soul of VCU is gone. Tom Robbins, icon, iconoclast, a man of imagination and a VCU alumnus, died yesterday. He was 92 but seemed forever young. People magazine had once described Robbins as “the perennial flower child and wild blooming Peter Pan of American letters,” who “dips history’s pigtails in weird ink and […]
VCU’s history new feature on Instagram
“Headlines in VCU History” is a new feature to VCU Libraries social media platforms. The series of posts, prepared by University Archivist Ruth Cody, highlights a moment in VCU’s past. January’s posts showcased a 1970 snowstorm, the 2002 Hibbs fire, the women’s basketball team 2019 rankings and the 2007 opening of the Hunton Student Center […]
Five Questions with John DeVore (BFA ’96/Arts)
I recently had the opportunity to sit down over breakfast in the East Village with John Devore (BFA ‘96, Arts). DeVore is a two-time James Beard Award–winning writer and editor who has worked for The New York Post, SiriusXM and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco. He’s also written for Esquire, Vanity Fair and Marvel Comics, among many […]
Meet student Minuet Curry
Minuet Curry is 2024-2025 student editor for VCU Libraries’ Jurgen Comics Contest. An Arts Foundation student, Curry brings many interests and talents to the project, promoting the contest, organizing entries and sharing the complex story of art censorship with other VCU students. Why did this job as student editor of the comics contest interest you? I […]
Publishing award scholar explores social work in troubled times from Reconstruction to today
VCU Libraries’ Social Welfare History Project (SWHP) announces the publication of “Social Work in Divisive Times: Navigating Dual Roles Across Eras and Movements” by Justin S. Harty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Work. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Harty has a background as a licensed clinical social worker […]
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 […]