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Join Elisa Gonzalez, the 2024 Levis Reading Prize winner, as she reads from her poetry collection "Grand Tour". This will be on Thursday, October 10 from 7-8:30PM in the Lecture Hall at Cabell Library, room 303. Click the link to register. bit.ly/3NgzqAM #VCUCHS ✨
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Paris's most iconic and romantic Eiffel tower on Olympic Ceremony.
#OlympicGames #Olympics2024
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It’s almost time, book lovers! 📚 Join us this coming Wednesday for our live virtual talk with Sheila Williams, author of “Things Past Telling.” ✨
Ready to join the conversation? Sign up here: bit.ly/487cJqZ
ALT Promotional graphic for "Virtual Book Club" featuring the book "Things Past Telling" by Sheila Williams, set against a black and mustard patterned background.
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Katharine Buckley, Special Collections and Archives librarian at @VCULibraries, offers a window into the history of LGBTQIA+ comics by highlighting significant items from VCU’s Comic Arts Collection. news.vcu.edu/article/2024/06…
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@VCULibraries Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative supports #VCU faculty members who eliminate textbook costs for students by transitioning to open educational resources or library content.
Read more: news.vcu.edu/article/2024/02…
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Medical pamphlets dating back to the 1800s will be available next week through NLM's new online exhibition. They provide a unique look back at how ideas were shared and published before the ease of online access. Learn more at circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2…. #VCU #MCV #VCUHSL #Archives
ALT An open book and four closed books are shown. There is a title underneath which states "Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: The Pamphlet Press."
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Now, @VCULibraries has posted a downloadable version of the Jurgen Comics Contest broadsheet newspaper celebrating the Fall 2023 Contest winners. scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jurg…
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In December, @VCULibraries announced the winners of its 2023-24 Jurgen Comics Contest, which invites students to create a comic about historical censorship or suppression of visual art, books, music, film or performance. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/12…
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“Memory Wars,” a six-part podcast series that explores how societies confront their difficult histories and sin, has been selected as the 2024-25 #VCU Common Book. It is the first podcast selected in the decade-plus history of the VCU.
Read more: news.vcu.edu/article/2024/01…
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Offering a historic look at one of America’s most historic cities, a new @VCULibraries digital collection reveals the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va.
Read more: news.vcu.edu/article/2023/12…
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Our deadline is right around the corner! VCU's Cabell First Novelist Award is OPEN for submissions until 12/30! Send us your debuts!
See firstnovelist.vcu.edu/submit… for more details on submission and eligibility!
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2023-24 #JurgenComicsContest! Check out the posters on the first floor of Cabell Library.
Lots more details here:
jamesbranchcabell.library.vc…
library.vcu.edu/about/news/2…
ALT Photo of Wanda Felsenhardt standing in front of a poster of the grand prize winning comic she created entitled “The Right to Read: Censorship in America’s Prisons."
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Throwback to 2006, when the #ZombieWalk invaded Cabell Library! Check out all the photos in the October 23 edition of the Commonwealth Times (@theCT) bit.ly/40fd20c (more issues in our Special Collections and Archives digital collections!)
Happy Halloween, @VCU!🎃👻🏴☠️😈
ALT Cover photo of the Commonwealth Times, October 23, 2006, with a photo of a student dressed as a pirate zombie, with a finger to their mouth in a classic "shush" motion. More students in zombie costumes are walking through the first floor of the library while other students are studying. The text reads "Shhh... Zombies invade V-C-U, page 12"
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“Ink & Rebellion: The Evolution of Censorship in Comics” features @VCULibraries' world-class Comic Arts Collection through the lens of suppression and control of creative content.
Read more: news.vcu.edu/article/2023/10…
ALT One of the most significant holdings in VCU’s Comic Arts Collection, All-Negro Comics #1 being held in a person's hand.
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This is a new passive engagement activity for us -- a sticker board! We'll see how it goes😍
Put your puzzle skills🧩 to the test and take a brain break at Cabell Library! We're collaborating on sticker posters this week from @byStickTogether. Can you guess what the image is? #StudyWell #VCU
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SHORT LIST SPOTLIGHT: The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
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One of Vulture's Best Books of 2022.
Winner of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize
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Read an interview with the author: triquarterly.org/interviews/…
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@VCUCHS @VCUEnglish @VCULibraries @misery_williams @mcdbooks
ALT The Doloriad on wood table with plant. "Top 10 Short List" and Cabell logo
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Drafting a call for proposals? May 4 Pub101 welcomed @VCULibraries’ Karen Bjork to share content considerations & a granular approach. Hosted by Washington Research Library Consortium’s Angelique Carson. Video: youtu.be/rjV6CYn-c64 Blog: z.umn.edu/8n0h #OpenTextbook
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.@VCULibraries’ Commonwealth Council of the Girl Scouts of Virginia Collection is now available to researchers. The collection includes more than 100 boxes of photographs, scrapbooks, uniforms, badges and other items from 1913 to 2012. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/03…
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A "reflection room" in @VCUCabell will enhance student wellness. The room will provide a quiet and welcoming space on the second floor, and will open for use in fall 2023. @VCULibraries news.vcu.edu/article/2023/02…
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A zine exhibit at @VCUCabell explores wellness themes and creative expressions from the pandemic. The DIY ethos that fuels zines “took on a new urgency with the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Caroline Meyers, research and collections specialist at @VCULibraries. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/02…
