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After several weeks of work on the library’s front doors and patio, we are pleased to announce that the front entrance has re-opened. Until stair railings are installed, you must use the handicap ramp (from the Mallory side).

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Visitors to Preston Library will notice that the main front door is not accessible due to demolition and construction of the patio, steps and sidewalk.

During the construction, the library is accessible through Nichols Engineering Building, the front door of which is to the left of Preston Library.  Signs are posted directing library users downstairs to the 4th floor of Nichols. At the end of the hallway, there’s a door that enters to the library’s 4th floor.

The circulation desk and many library staff are up one level, on the 5th floor.

If you need assistance or have any questions, please call 540-464-7129.

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Check out the National Jukebox! Developed by the Library of Congress, with assets provided by Sony Music Entertainment, the National Jukebox offers free online access to a vast selection of music and spoken-word recordings produced in the U.S. between the years 1901 and 1925. You can stream the music and create playlists, too. http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

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On March 9 in 1976, the first female cadets entered West Point. Twenty years later, VMI joined the ranks. Gaining admission to these institutions marked an important passage in women’s history.
March is National Women’s History Month – and today International Women’s Day – a time to bring our attention to events like this in our country’s and the world’s history. In 1920, the 20th Amendment granted women the right to vote. Eleanor Roosevelt was first lady from 1933-1945 and later on helped get the second wave of feminism started. Today, women still earn, on average, a considerably smaller income than men, and people worldwide are paying more attention to the particular issues facing women in the Middle East.
Please visit the Women’s History Month display in Preston Library, where you can take a quiz about women’s history, collect a bookmark, and see some of the items that the library owns honoring women in history.

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The Power of Poetry is the theme to the 2011 VMI Poetry Symposium, to be held Friday and Saturday, March 4-5.

The program opens Friday with a reading by celebrated Iraq War poet Brian Turner, 7:45 p.m. in Gillis Theater.  All-day events Saturday will feature student paper and poem presentations, a keynote by James A. Winn, author of The Poetry of War (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and a panel discussion, “The Poetry of War” with Turner and Winn.

Student presenters are from VMI, W&L, Mary Washington, Hollins, Sweet Briar, UNC Asheville, JMU, ODU, Roanoke College, Lynchburg College and the University of Richmond.

Please visit the Poetry Symposium display, in Preston Library, featuring books by Winn, Turner, and VMI’s COL David Rachels, moderator of the panel discussion.

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Ring Figure, the dance and ceremony in which Second Class cadets receive their class rings, will be happening on Sunday, November 21.  Check out the VMI Archives’ page to learn more about the history of Ring Figure and see images of some previous ring designs.  You can see a large model of this year’s ring design painted on the cannon ball on the edge of the parade ground across from J.M. Hall.

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That’s how librarians are described in this recent piece on Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hack-college/make-life-easier-ask-a-li_b_748521.html

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