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- Save the Dates: VCU Libraries sets fall semester events
July 17, 2025 — Fall semester events line-up set. - Weeks of Welcome tours and open houses set
July 17, 2025 — Weeks of Welcome packed with activities - VCU Libraries introduces new Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery platform
July 11, 2025 — New system up and running. - Access The Financial Times through VCU Libraries
June 26, 2025 — VCU Libraries now offers access to The Financial Times, a daily London-based newspaper that covers the world's leading business, economic, political and world affairs news. - VCU’s librarians can help researchers navigate July 1 expedited effective date for NIH-grant public publishing
June 18, 2025 — Update regarding public access to government-funded research goes into effect July 1, six months earlier than previously announced. - VCU Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan and Document Services closed June 25-30
June 18, 2025 — The VCU Libraries online Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services will not operate from Wednesday, June 25, at 1 p.m. through Monday, June 30, to install an improved system. - Cabell First Novelist Top Ten List
June 16, 2025 — VCU’s Cabell First Novelist Award is awarded annually to a debut novel that bends the bounds of imagination to produce a creative literary experience. - Affordable Course Content Awards support free textbooks for six new courses
June 2, 2025 — Six projects involving 15 faculty are underway in VCU Libraries’ ninth round of Affordable Course Content Awards. - Hidden historical figures and distorted histories fascinate 2025 Book Artist in Residence
May 15, 2025 — Nneoma Njoku, a first year MFA student in the graphic design program in the VCU School of the Arts, is the 2025 Book Artist in Residence in Special Collections and Archives. - Graphics major Amyri Burton wins 2025 Friends design contest
May 15, 2025 — Amyri Burton, a graphic design major in the VCU School of the Arts, is the 2025 winner of the Friends of VCU Libraries Design Contest. - VCU Libraries launches new Interlibrary Loan and document delivery platform in July
May 14, 2025 — Changes will improve user experience - Embracing research through an artistic lens: Multimedia librarian mentors arts education major
April 30, 2025 — Kate Ogden blends her interests in teaching, science and art by developing a K-16 curricular resource that explores the intersection of AI and photography. - Statewide project provides free ebooks to VCU students
April 28, 2025 — Students avoid costs of textbooks with this program. - MCV Campus library is home away from home for Friends scholarship recipient
April 22, 2025 — Friends of VCU Libraries Scholarship recipient, Evelyn Gomez, finds moments to decompress at the Health Sciences Library. - VCU’s dance master Chris Burnside tells his life stories in "The Man from Figueras"
April 16, 2025 — The memoir is newly published on Scholars Compass and also available in a limited edition printed book. - Library Publishing Coalition honors VCU Libraries researchers
April 15, 2025 — A research team from VCU Libraries is the recipient of the Library Publishing Coalition’s 2025 Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing. - Full-time library professionals started their careers as student workers
April 3, 2025 — Several former student workers have found themselves returning to the campus as libraries employees. - April 22 Giving Day 2025: Give to libraries priorities
March 12, 2025 — Scholarships and free texts are Giving Day priorities - VCU's only van Gogh work on view at March 27 Cliff Edwards lecture
March 24, 2025 — See VCU's only van Gogh - Social Welfare History Project gets a fresh, updated design
March 24, 2025 — Site redesigned to better engage with users - Students: Apply by March 23 for 2025 Book Art Residency
March 18, 2025 — Apply now for 2025 Book Art Residency - VCU Publishing Awards for outstanding journal articles announced
March 17, 2025 — Two journal articles cited for excellence - Faculty: Apply by April 4 for Affordable Course Content awards
March 5, 2025 — Apply now for new affordable course content awards. - Reality Check: VCU Health Sciences Library focuses on vaccines for spring programming
February 12, 2025 — Exhibits and film explore vaccination - Ram Fridges are giving new life to leftovers
February 28, 2025 — As part of a three-year sustainability grant, the project addresses food waste and food insecurity on campus. - New archival exhibit focuses on student advocacy through action, art and publishing
February 19, 2025 — “Voices of Change: Student Advocacy and Action from the Archives” now on view in the fourth floor gallery of James Branch Cabell Library. - The legacy of the singular American writer Tom Robbins lives on at VCU
February 13, 2025 — The 1959 graduate died this week at age 92, but VCU Libraries is home to his papers, which capture the vibrant voice and irreverent spirit reflected in ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ and other works. - Funding available for students interested in literacy, libraries or children’s/young adult literature
January 24, 2025 — Students: Apply by March 10 to attend libraries conference for free - Burnside Watstein awards seek nominations honoring impact on VCU's LGBTQ+ community
January 16, 2025 — Annual awards program underway - Faculty: Apply by March 5 for state grants to support no-cost course materials and innovations
January 15, 2025 — State grants support innovative pedagogy - Mr. Cabell's Stable: Imaginative author collected mythical and fantastical horse figurines
January 7, 2025 — Explore horse statues in Exposure photo essay - 22 illustrations of Cabell's infamous book 'Jurgen' enter public domain
January 1, 2025 — 22 linocuts now in public domain and available on Scholars Compass - 2024-2025 Faculty & Staff Scholarly Achievements
June 6, 2025 — 2024-2025 Publications made by Faculty & Staff - 2024-2025 Faculty & Staff Presentations
June 6, 2025 — 2024-2025 Presentations and Creative Endeavors of Faculty & Staff - 2024-2025 National and Regional Leadership Positions
June 6, 2025 — VCU Libraries continued its role as a convenor of important conversations about librarianship, and its faculty carried on in assuming high-profile leadership roles in national and regional organizations. - Looking Back: Faculty reflect on their Affordable Course Content projects
June 16, 2025 — Several faculty have had the opportunity to compile and further adapt OER course materials over the past five years and reflect on their experiences.
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