ChatDecember 19, 2025 — Band member and former VCUarts student Bob Gorman preserved compelling visual elements of the boundary-blurring act’s history and creativity.
December 10, 2025 — Services change is due to multi-year project
December 4, 2025 — VCU Libraries participates in VIVA trials of AI tools Consensus and Scite
December 3, 2025 — Annual design contest underway.
December 1, 2025 — VCU Libraries invites students to apply for funding to attend the 2026 American Library Association Convention in Chicago. Deadline for applications is March 25, 2026.
December 1, 2025 — VCU Libraries' Jurgen Comics Contest is again challenging VCU student artists to tell a story of banned art and the relationship between that artwork and society.
November 7, 2025 — New this academic year, the discussion series explores how generative AI is studied and used across VCU.
November 7, 2025 — The Nov. 18 event, ‘On Native Ground: Virginia Native Nations, Sovereignty, and Persistence,’ features Stephen Adkins and is part of the VCU Provost Lecture Series.
October 29, 2025 — VCU Libraries' new digital Gay Alliance of Students collection makes the club’s historic fight for recognition visible through the letters, receipts, memos and legal documents.
October 22, 2025 — VCU Libraries will soon unveil a new tool to engage students and aid researchers.
October 17, 2025 — VCU librarian Nia Rodgers is the incoming chair of the Depository Library Council and will serve in this national role July 2026-June 2027.
October 15, 2025 — In partnership with VCU Libraries, a faculty team in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department (GSWS) has received $10,000 from the Southern Regional Education Board’s Open Educational Capacity Building Grant program.
October 2, 2025 — VCU Libraries, in support of open and affordable course materials across the VCU community, announces a new round of VIVA Open Grants.
October 1, 2025 — The Open Science Framework (OSF), a key tool for managing data, will launch an update and redesign Oct. 11.
September 15, 2025 — The exhibit draws on the library’s collections to portray the James River which flows through the center of Richmond.
September 15, 2025 — A Sensory Room is new this semester at James Branch Cabell Library.
September 11, 2025 — VCU Libraries will celebrate Free to Read Week from October 6-10, 2025.
September 11, 2025 — VCU Libraries will hold a virtual community event focused on its recently launched “Richmond Police Department Surveillance Collection."
September 11, 2025 — Friends of VCU Libraries present scholarships.
August 13, 2025 — A new digital collection offers a rare window into Richmond’s civil rights era and the individuals who helped shape it in the early 1960s and 1970s.
August 13, 2025 — De Marcken will receive the prize, which is now in its 24th year, during a public event at VCU on Nov. 5.
August 22, 2025 — Apply by September: Student advisors needed for VCU Libraries
July 17, 2025 — Fall semester events line-up set.
July 17, 2025 — Weeks of Welcome packed with activities
July 11, 2025 — New system up and running.
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.
June 18, 2025 — Update regarding public access to government-funded research goes into effect July 1, six months earlier than previously announced.
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.
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.
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.
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.
June 6, 2025 — 2024-2025 Publications made by Faculty & Staff
June 6, 2025 — 2024-2025 Presentations and Creative Endeavors of Faculty & Staff
June 2, 2025 — Six projects involving 15 faculty are underway in VCU Libraries’ ninth round of Affordable Course Content Awards.
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.
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.
May 14, 2025 — Changes will improve user experience
April 28, 2025 — Students avoid costs of textbooks with this program.
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.
April 22, 2025 — Friends of VCU Libraries Scholarship recipient, Evelyn Gomez, finds moments to decompress at the Health Sciences Library.
April 16, 2025 — The memoir is newly published on Scholars Compass and also available in a limited edition printed book.
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.
April 3, 2025 — Several former student workers have found themselves returning to the campus as libraries employees.
March 12, 2025 — Scholarships and free texts are Giving Day priorities
March 24, 2025 — See VCU's only van Gogh
March 24, 2025 — Site redesigned to better engage with users
March 18, 2025 — Apply now for 2025 Book Art Residency
March 17, 2025 — Two journal articles cited for excellence
March 5, 2025 — Apply now for new affordable course content awards.
February 12, 2025 — Exhibits and film explore vaccination
February 28, 2025 — As part of a three-year sustainability grant, the project addresses food waste and food insecurity on campus.
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.
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.
January 24, 2025 — Students: Apply by March 10 to attend libraries conference for free
January 16, 2025 — Annual awards program underway
January 15, 2025 — State grants support innovative pedagogy
January 7, 2025 — Explore horse statues in Exposure photo essay
January 1, 2025 — 22 linocuts now in public domain and available on Scholars Compass