Author Archives: mdilwort

Author Archives: mdilwort

Welcome to the IU East Campus Library

Welcome to the IU East Campus Library

Jesse Whitton, Library Services
Welcome to the IU East Campus Library! Our mission is to provide resources and services that support the academic engagement and research of diverse participants in our teaching and learning community. The helpful, knowledgeable library team is available to assist you online, in-person, or via phone. The IU East Campus Library Facebook page highlights resources, events, and services. Be sure to “like” us! Electronic Resources and Collection Development Assistant Librarian Beth South manages all e-resources, including our A-Z databases, e-books, streaming media, Open Education Resources, and specialized library tools like LibKey. LibKey is a specialized browser extension that can be added to help you locate and access articles when searching websites outside of the library database like Google Scholar, PubMed, … Continued
Banning and Challenging Books

Banning and Challenging Books

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“Your position is that under the Constitution, the advertising for this book or the sale for the book itself could be prohibited?” – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy “If the book contained the functional equivalent of express advocacy.” – Deputy Solicitor General Malcom Stewart, attorney for the FEC – Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) American libraries stand on the First Amendment, taking as a bedrock principle that citizens’ right to read whatever they want must not be abridged.  The desire to censor or control what other people have access to is insidious; and can be found in people of every creed and ideology.  To draw attention to this risk, for forty years the American Library … Continued
New Nursing Resources for a New School Year

New Nursing Resources for a New School Year

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The IU East Campus Library has new resources to help students and faculty locate clinical and healthcare related scholarly journals and articles. We now subscribe to ProQuest’s Nursing and Allied Health Premium.This database provides access to over 700 scholarly journals, 350 training videos, case studies, and multicultural reports that can help healthcare providers in working with patients from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. It also includes illustrations and photos that students can study and include in their research and presentations. Example: To find a specific journal, we now have access to BrowZine, a tool that enables searching for a journal by title, subject, or ISSN. We recommend nursing students check the Biomedical and Health Sciences BrowZine Library, which allows you … Continued
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web!

Happy Birthday, World Wide Web!

, Website
On August 1, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at CERN created the term “world wide web” to describe an interconnected universe of information.  The first graphics-based web browser, Mosaic, was developed only a few years later by computer scientist Marc Andreesen, then working for the University of Illinois.  While other text-based browsers already existed, like Gopher and Lynx, it was Mosaic that pointed the way toward what most people think of as the Internet today.  Considering the ubiquity of online information, commerce and entertainment, it is worth examining tools and tricks that make the Internet safer, easier and more useful.  For instance, special operators are an easy way to make any search engine work better.  A tilde (the ~ … Continued
Service-Learning:  10 years of campus-community connections

Service-Learning:  10 years of campus-community connections

, Ann Tobin, Jesse Whitton, outreach
The Center for Service-Learning (CSL) provides opportunities “to enrich the campus and community through educationally meaningful service that helps students become socially responsible citizens.” For the past ten years, Coordinator of Service-Learning Ann Tobin has helped students turn these opportunities into positive outcomes. From tutoring and mentoring programs in local schools and on-campus, to service-learning projects in a variety of IU East courses, Ann has helped IU East students grow personally and professionally. She has facilitated partnerships with numerous community organizations and schools and served as the advisor for the Circle K International student service organization, which is the collegiate branch of the Kiwanis. Some images of Ann’s service engagement over the past decade can be found here and featured … Continued