The Reading Room in Special Collections
This page contains useful links and documents to best serve you while on shift! If you have any questions about the following material please be sure to ask your supervisor.
***If you have any information you would like to see added to this dashboard please email Faith Benavides (benavifm@jmu.edu)***
Training Guides
- Aeon Training GuideThis guide has step-by-step instructions on how to navigate through Aeon.
- User Request System Training GuideThis guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to navigate users through creating accounts, requesting printed materials and manuscripts, and placing reproduction requests through our User Request System.
- Reading Room Policies and Procedures GuideThis guide contains policies and procedures you need to know when staffing the Reading Room.
- Pulling Materials Guide: Call SlipsPhoto guide on how to pull materials with call slips.
- New Shelving GuideThis guide provides an overview of the workflow involved in shelving new acquisitions of
printed materials in our collection. - Walk-Ins & Reference GuideThis guide provides an overview of how to navigate walk-in and reference requests within the Special Collections Reading Room.
Student Logins
- Shelf-Reading FormThis form should be filled out during every shelf reading shift.
Most Common Resources
- JMU ArchivesThis resource is keyword searchable and depicts the early history of JMU.
- The FixerAn underground newspaper at Madison College from 1969-1973.
- JMU BulletinsRanges from 1900-1979.
- JMU HandbooksThis depicts the rules and policies at JMU from 1912-2008. They are NOT related to the course catalogs.
- Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS)Archival Resources of the Virginias (formerly Virginia Heritage) is a consolidated database of finding aids that provides information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in Virginia and West Virginia