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Upon entering Loudoun’s new library, students are amazed by the panoramic view but, more importantly, students feel comfortable in the library. “I feel drawn in at the library. It almost feels like home,” said Alfred J. Guillen-Escobari, president of Loudoun’s Student Government Association. This type of vision for design doesn’t just happen. Every decision was intentional. [...]

Ah, the lure of Teddy Grahams! What better way to snare students in the jungle of a campus library? That is why Robin Pachtman, library media specialist at the Annandale Campus, laid the trap to attract students to the Technology Petting Zoo on February 6 (prior to the faculty and staff event the next day). [...]

Robin Pachtman moved the “petting zoo” on February 7 from the Annandale Library to the Faculty and Staff Resource Center (FSRC). Dubbed a Technology Open House, the event gave staff and faculty the opportunity to see the same “pets” available to their students in the Library as well as clickers, tabletop projectors and iPads available [...]

Governor Robert F. McDonnell has declared October Information Literacy Awareness Month. In recognition of this initiative, make sure to visit your campus library, set up a library instruction for your class, explore a new database, or talk to one of your campus librarians about creating a LibGuide research guide tailor-made for your course or assignment [...]

At the end of April, the Woodbridge Campus celebrated and said goodbye to Circulation Librarian Ann Turpyn who is retiring after 40 years at NOVA. Turpyn began at the Annandale Campus in 1972 as a library assistant under head librarian Lois Smith.  In 1977, Turpyn transferred to the Woodbridge Campus and worked with Dr. Gordon [...]

After 32 years as a reference librarian at the Manassas Campus, Sherrill Wharff has retired. On March 28, faculty, staff and students gathered in the library to celebrate Wharff’s years of service and express appreciation for her significant contributions to NOVA. Wharff’s memories cover a considerable amount of NOVA history. When she arrived in September [...]

The NOVA Annandale Campus Library will sponsor its Third Annual Edible Book Festival, to be held at the Annandale Library on April 2 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.  This one day edible festival of food and books is held in honor of the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), the author of “The [...]

The NOVA Annandale Campus Library will sponsor its Third Annual Edible Book Festival, to be held at the Annandale Library on April 2 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.  This one day edible festival of food and books is held in honor of the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), the author of “The [...]

On October 18, the Woodbridge Campus Gordon M. Cook Library hosted its third annual autumn literary event, “Authors Influencing Authors.” Accomplished NOVA authors Robert Bausch, Kelly Cochran, Mark D’Antonio, Ash DeFuria, Donna Kendall, Amber Maiden, Brenda Meisel, Raul Jordan-Smith and Lee Ann Thomas shared selections from their own forthcoming publications as well as currently published [...]

Alexandria Campus Librarians Matt Todd and Anne Anderson hosted four librarians from T.C. Williams High School to discuss common challenges and opportunities and to share information on resources, services and shared goals. Todd and Anderson hope this will help smooth the transition for T.C. Williams students as they continue their education at NOVA. Alexandria library [...]

In 2005, the Alexandria Campus Library launched its first ever blog to publicize news and events, as well as to record milestones concerning the library and staff. Seven years later, readers have viewed blog pages over 20,500 times. Over 230 individual posts record such events as eleven extensions of library hours for exams, nine book [...]

Senator Charles Colgan was the guest of honor at a reception May 16 at the Manassas Campus. Board members, faculty, staff and students gathered to thank Colgan for his donation to the Campus Library. Colgan donated a large collection of books that document the proceedings of the General Assembly during the years Colgan has served [...]

The Annandale Campus Library hosted its second annual Edible Book Festival on April 4 as part of its celebration of National Library Week. Throughout the world, this one day edible festival of food and books is held on the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat- Savarin (1755-1826), the author of “The Physiology of Taste, or, [...]

The Annandale Campus Library is hosting a Poetry Contest Award Ceremony and open reading to celebrate the first annual poetry contest for Poetry Month. This event will be held on Tuesday, April 12 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Annandale Library (CG-300). Please attend to congratulate the winners and listen to their award-winning [...]