VCU Libraries Construction

VCU Libraries Development Office has set $500,000 in new gifts and pledges as its fundraising goal for this fiscal year. The overall capital campaign goal for VCU Libraries is $6 million. For the 2014-15 fiscal year, VCU Libraries raised a record amount, close to $300,000. These essential private funds supplement the state’s $50.8 investment in […]

After commencement and before summer sessions, beginning Monday, May 11, expect loud work on the exterior of Cabell Library. The construction team will be jack-hammering the exterior plinth–the platform that surrounds the base of the building–to prepare it for being resurfaced with granite pavers that will match the exterior of the new building. In other […]

Graduate students gathered today at Cabell Library for a briefing and open forum about services and spaces being planned for them  in the new library. Feedback on the design was positive and they brimmed with ideas about their needs in the space and for services. Associate University Library for Research and Learning Dennis Clark outlined […]

Last night’s open forum on needs and dreams for the “makerspace”–the Innovative Media department’s new and enlarged work areas on the lower level–brought varied voices and ideas. Students and faculty from different disciplines saw a brief presentation about current Innovative Media services and renderings of the new space. Then, they shared ideas, in a free-ranging […]

As a recognition of students’ grin-and-bear-it attitudes, during the first year of construction of the new library on the Monroe Park Campus, beginning after the topping off on March 18, VCU Libraries will not charge fines on overdue books received by midnight on March 31. “Our students have been patient with disruptions due to construction,” […]

The new library has been going up, up, up, resulting in this week’s Topping Off, when the tallest beam was raised to the top of the roofline.