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Interns: Involvement and Empowerment!

internship program August 15, 2011 Frances Yates, Interns fyates 0 Comments

Want to use your talents and interests while also learning new skills and receiving un-ending gratitude? Think about being a library intern! An internship is a mutually beneficial arrangement. The undergraduate or graduate student can: learn new skills helpful for future employment use unique talents and strengths to make a lasting contribution to the Campus increase professional contacts enhance a resume experience personal and professional growth meet interesting people In the past two years the Campus Library has hosted five interns, with a sixth starting for Fall 2011. Each intern has had a significant impact on library resources or services. Thanks to these interns, the Library is improved and enhanced in many ways, such as: Debra White developed an easy-to-manage … Continued

Author Access from Anywhere, Anytime

August 8, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

What do Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe, Euripides, Madeleine L’Engle, Herman Melville, and Beatrix Potter have in common? They are all included in the Literature Resource Center. IU East subscribes to this key resource for discovering literary criticism and background about authors. This database has been especially tailored for an undergraduate audience, focusing on the 2,500 authors most frequently read in colleges and universities. That’s not to say grad students won’t find plenty of great information – but it’s a perfect fit for newer researchers. In addition to literary criticism the LRC contains biographies, reviews, work overviews, and timelines. There’s even a guide for how to include these resources in a properly MLA-formatted paper. And it covers authors throughout human history, … Continued

Historical Research Resources: real-time and real perspectives

e-resources, good information, libguides August 1, 2011 Frances Yates, Library Resources, Matt Dilworth, Research mdilwort

Suppose someone living in the year 2025, or even 2225, wants reliable information about what happened in 2011? Where would be the best place to get information (assuming by then all our brains aren’t pre-wired at birth to the Internet or whatever comes Next)? There are unique considerations when doing historical research, for whatever type of questions you seek to answer. One facet of historical research is the need for primary sources – that is, things written and said by the people actually involved with those events. Having access to primary documentation is of vital important to historical study. Newspapers are also of great value, providing contemporary perspectives that can be critical to understanding the perceptions about events and people … Continued

Partners for Academic Success

accreditation July 25, 2011 Frances Yates fyates 0 Comments

IU East is preparing for a visit from the The Higher Learning Commission during the upcoming Fall semester. The HLC is an independent corporation and one of two commission members of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), which is one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. In the U.S., colleges and universities voluntarily seek accreditation from this nongovernmental organization. Accreditation assures education consumers (i.e., students) that a school is meeting specified criteria and standards for effectively providing an education. The Commission’s mission statement is “serving the common good by assuring and advancing the quality of higher learning.” They use five criteria in determining accreditation: Mission and integrity Preparing for the future Student learning and … Continued

New Orleans: After Katrina, Then and Now

conferences July 18, 2011 Lora Baldwin mcclell 0 Comments

New Orleans, or NOLA, is a great place to attend a conference. I recently attended my fifth American Library Association annual meeting there. In June 2006, ALA was the first conference in NOLA after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the City. It was in the New Orleans convention center that was made famous by the hordes of people who had nowhere else to go during the flooding. The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is over a mile long, but only a part of it was ready in time for the ALA conference. The first thing noticeable while driving into New Orleans in 2006 was the number of roofs covered with blue tarps. We stayed south of the city, in a … Continued