Library Lite All Nite
24/5 Hours
November 30 - December 16, 2008
James Branch Cabell Library

The James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus will be open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week during exams. This expanded service is called Library Lite All Nite.

From Sunday, November 30 through Tuesday, December 16, Cabell doors will open at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday and remain open until our regular Friday evening closing time at 9pm. Saturday hours will remain unchanged during Library Lite All Nite - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This service will provide 24/5 access to the library building and offer Circulation and Information services, individual study on the 3rd and 4th floors, group study in designated areas, and computerized resources including the library catalog, databases, Internet access, and Microsoft Office applications. The B-8 Computer Lab will also be open during the 24/5 hours.

Sunday through Thursday nights, all patrons entering James Branch Cabell Library after 10 p.m. are required to show VCUCards to gain admittance. A complete listing of operational hours for Cabell Library and Tompkins-McCaw Library is available online.

For more information about Library Lite All Nite and for a complete listing of available services, please visit this Web site.

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences
509 North 12th Street
Richmond, VA 23298-0582
804-828-0636
November 1, 2008 - January 28, 2009

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will sponsor the traveling exhibit " Opening Doors: Contemporary African-American Academic Surgeons" from November 1, 2008 to January 28, 2009.

The exhibit, developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, celebrates the achievements of African American pioneers in academic surgery and those that continue the tradition today.

Print the Flyer!

Knovel Library has chosen VCU students to participate in the Knovel University Challenge running Sept. 29 until Dec. 1, 2008. Knovel Library is a property and interactive database for engineering, chemistry, material science, environmental science, and microelectronic materials.

To participate in the challenge, students can visit www.info.knovel.com/challenge. To play, search Knovel and correctly answer three engineering questions. Prizes include 2 Nintendo Wiis, 3 iPod Nanos, and 6 iTunes gift cards.

Universities with 100 entries or more are guaranteed entry into a contest-within-the-contest ensuring that 1 student participant with 3 correct answers will be the winner of an iPod Nano.