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Monthly Archives: July 2019

Your opportunity to share! Scholarly Communications and the IUScholarWorks-East Collection

faculty, scholarworks July 29, 2019 Research, Sue McFadden mdilwort

Faculty Scholarship Celebration Collection Calling all IU East students and faculty! We want to help disseminate your research and creative work. One tool is IUScholarWorks (IUSW), the Indiana University Libraries Institutional Repository (IR) that archives and provides online access to scholarly communication objects. Presentation by Dr. Brian Brodeur, Assistant Professor, English Presentation by Katherine A. Miller Wolf, PhD, RPA Also available is the IUSW-East Collection (IUSW-E). This provides space for a variety of materials created by faculty and students. These materials vary from research to service, and include teaching resources. The materials/objects provided online are a digital record of the original. The form stored is generally a PDF, although other file types may be stored or linked. Presentation by Carrie … Continued

In Memory of Eva Kor

judaism, memorial, speakers July 22, 2019 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth, outreach, Programs mdilwort

Eva Mozes Kor, a Jewish activist and educator who suffered in the Holocaust, passed away earlier this month. She died while leading an educational field trip, only a few miles from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp where she lost almost all of her family – dedicated to the very last to educate as many people as possible so that no one else might suffer what she did. Eva Kor visited IU East and shared her story with us recently, describing the horrors of losing her family to the Nazi regime and suffering torture masquerading as ‘medical experiments’ at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele, since she was a twin. Despite suffering and losing more in a single year than most … Continued

IU East’s LGBTQ Archive Collection – Add your story!

archives, Elizabeth South, lgbtqs, oral history July 15, 2019 outreach, Programs mdilwort

LGBT Pride Month this year commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Richmond held its first Pride Festival and marked the return of Rainbow Richmond, our local LGBTQ community organization, that was originally founded in 2006. With the efforts of Dr. Travis Rountree and his Eng-W270 students in Spring 2019, the IU East Archives created Richmond’s first LGBTQ archive collection. Students collected interviews and articles from in and around Richmond and Wayne County’s LGBTQ community and wrote research papers based on relevant topics that they encountered with this collection. Figure 1 Screen capture of IU East’s LGBTQ collection homepage The collection currently holds several short interviews from local students who identify as LGBTQ, local news articles, photos, and promotional … Continued

What’s a deepfake?

checking sources, fake news, KT Lowe, misinformation July 8, 2019 Research mdilwort

Seeing is believing. That’s a truism most of us have held onto forever. The modern version – “Pics or it didn’t happen” – only reinforces the idea that visual evidence is more honest than verbal or written evidence. Images are intended to represent something that actually exists or once existed, and serve as a memento of a person, place, object or event. Photographic images are supposed to be infallible and real, the promise of early photography revealed. Deepfakes, however, challenge this idea of visual truth by presenting intentionally false video, usually on a platform that can be seen by multiple people. These videos have the potential to skew public discourse and influence elections, much as fake news stories may have … Continued

Campus Library update: Who’s who and how we can help

jobs, staff July 1, 2019 Frances Yates, Library Services mdilwort

Your campus library has the same friendly, familiar faces but we have some new titles and roles to share. Matthew Dilworth, Coordinator of Reference and Media Services, is available for all your reference and interlibrary loan needs. He is also liaison to the School of Business and Economics and completes all library resource forms for new course and program requests. iueref@iue.edu 765.973.8279 KT Lowe, Assistant Librarian for Library Instruction, serves as liaison to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Work, and Office of Student Success. She collaborates with faculty for library instruction and creation of course-specific LibGuides and Canvas modules. lowekat@iu.edu 765.973.8434 Sue McFadden, Associate librarian for Research, is liaison to the School of Nursing and … Continued