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Unique spaces to meet your learning needs

study rooms August 29, 2011 Matt Dilworth mdilwort

We’ve had a busy summer, re-designing and re-purposing library space to get maximum use and to create specialized areas focused on student needs. With another semester of record-breaking enrollment at IU East, the Library provides learning spaces dedicated to both general and specific uses. If you need formal group study space, Hayes 101 is convenient for 10-12 students. Prefer more informal space? Try the Library Living Room on the 2nd floor, with its eclectic and comfortable décor, complete with bean bag chairs. It is open for groups anytime a class is not scheduled to use it (the schedule is posted on the door). And if you need to spread out with your school projects, whether individually or as a group, … Continued

Ask us!

staff, Student Workers August 22, 2011 Frances Yates fyates 0 Comments

Welcome back students! As the Fall semester quickly approaches, it’s helpful to know who to ask for what at your Campus Library. All library staff have service as a top priority and we aim to do everything we can to help students be academically successful. So ask us…hopefully you’ll be glad you did! Need to check out a book or film, whether from the stacks or on reserve, or schedule a room or get something from the Archives? Mandi Moning is our Coordinator of User Services and Archives. Mandi just celebrated her one year anniversary with IU East. She earned her undergraduate degree at Miami University and dual Masters in History and Library Science from New York. You can … Continued

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