{"id":153181,"date":"2019-10-02T06:09:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=153181"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:13:42","slug":"at-30-umws-simpson-library-is-an-open-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/10\/02\/at-30-umws-simpson-library-is-an-open-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"At 30, UMW\u2019s Simpson Library is an Open Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_153182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-153182\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Library-2-600x407-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Throughout its 30-year history, the University of Mary Washington&rsquo;s Simpson Library has kept up with changing times and evolving technology. Its current collection claims online journals, a greater collection of electronic books than those in print and modern entities like the ThinkLab and Digital Archiving Lab. Photo by Norm Shafer. \" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Library-2-600x407-300x204.jpg 300w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Library-2-600x407.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throughout its 30-year history, the University of Mary Washington&rsquo;s Simpson Library has kept up with changing times and evolving technology. Its current collection claims online journals, a greater collection of electronic books than those in print and modern entities like the ThinkLab and Digital Archiving Lab. Photo by Norm Shafer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>James Pape doesn&rsquo;t think of Simpson Library as being the big brick building with all the books across from the Hurley Convergence Center.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_89779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89779\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>&ldquo;The library is the entire campus,&rdquo; said Pape, Simpson&rsquo;s access services and outreach librarian. &ldquo;Students are still using the library when they&rsquo;re reading books or other materials in their residence halls or apartments, or even when they&rsquo;re using our databases to conduct research.&rdquo;<\/p><p>A storehouse of sources, it has served since 1989 as the University&rsquo;s knowledge center, supporting teaching, learning, research and service happenings on and off campus. In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Simpson Library will hold a reception today, Oct. 2, from 3 to 5 p.m., for the campus community.<\/p><p>&ldquo;On the outside, it may look much as it did when it opened 30 years ago, but inside we are evolving into a 21st-century library,&rdquo; said University Librarian Rosemary Arneson, who pointed to online journals, a greater collection of electronic books than those in print and modern entities like the ThinkLab and Digital Archiving Lab. &ldquo;At our heart, however, we continue to be committed to providing excellent service to the UMW community.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/02\/at-30-simpson-library-is-an-open-book\/\">Read more.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Pape doesn&rsquo;t think of Simpson Library as being the big brick building with all the books across from the Hurley Convergence Center.&ldquo;The library is the entire campus,&rdquo; said Pape, Simpson&rsquo;s access services and outreach librarian. &ldquo;Students are still using the library when they&rsquo;re reading books or other materials in their residence halls or apartments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":153182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[9387,2761,823],"class_list":["post-153181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-jpape","tag-rarneso3","tag-simpson-library","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}