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The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

The windows of the Willey Library building near the Bentley parking lot

A pane in the glass

Kai Jamil, Staff Reporter September 23, 2021

When will Willey’s wonky windows work? Fix one problem, create another, or so it seems with the ongoing problems of the casement windows in the Willey Library and Learning Center, built in 1996. A...

irresponsibly photoshopped by Solil Devyn Borthwick

McClelland faculty finds new digs in WLLC

Opal Savoy, Editor In Chief September 23, 2021

The great McClelland migration has come to an end. This semester, the faculty and staff that previously resided in McClelland Hall have made the move from their offices down the hill to a central location...

The lower lobby of Willey Library stands empty during the COVID pandemic.

Unifying the libraries

Emmett Avery, Staff Reporter November 13, 2020

The Vermont State Colleges System is considering unifying the Northern Vermont University, Castleton and Hartness libraries under one system-wide structure. The VSCS has convened a task force to investigate...

Letter from Willey Library

Willey Library Staff October 8, 2020

Greetings NVU-Johnson community members and Basement Medicine readers, I would like to thank Tyrone Shaw, Marcus Allen, and Basement Medicine for drawing attention to a special facility on our beautiful...

To the editor: WLLC corrections and apologies

Marcus Allen, Contributor October 8, 2020

I would like to take this time to sincerely apologize to all of the readers of this paper and the entire staff of the Willey Library. In my recent piece about the library’s changes for COVID-19 there...

The reference section in the library.

Librarians resign

Emmett Avery, Staff Reporter October 8, 2020

The director of the Northern Vermont University libraries and a technical services librarian at NVU-Johnson both resigned separately during the past few weeks. The resignations appear to be unconnected....

The reference section in the library.

Library policies, hours change for COVID-19

Marcus Allen, Contributor September 22, 2020

COVID-19 has disrupted many campus functions to some extent, and the Willey Library is no exception, with reduced hours, reduced staffing, and reduced student access to the stacks. In the years preceding...

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