Black Studies in Video Collection

The library has recently expanded its offerings of online videos by acquiring the Black Studies in Video collection from Alexander Street Press.  This recent acquisition expands the library’s holdings in the area of Black History and Literature adding video content to the existing Black Thought and Culture collection. You can get access to Black Studies in Video by going directly to: http://blst.alexanderstreet.com.

The Black Studies in Video collection is a seminal video collection consisting of archival footage, powerful interviews with leading figures in the civil rights movement, and documentaries examining the black experience in the arts, politics, public and private life, and much more. The collection was developed in partnership with California Newsreel, the oldest nonprofit social issue documentary film center in the United States, and the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) which provided streaming to its Legacy Video Collection.

At present, the collection contains over 140 videos from 1969 – 2011 totaling 141 hours and upon completion, the collection will contain 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.  The database will also draw from the NAACP archives, archives from select Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the Hatch-Billops Collection, a critically acclaimed archive of primary and secondary resource materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature.

There are numerous access points for locating content as users can browse by people, themes, topics, filmmaker, country of origin, production date, producer, and other features.  The service provides synchronized, searchable transcripts that run alongside each video.  Users can also search all video transcripts, liner notes, bibliographic data (including series, title, country of origin, publication date, narrator, production staff, and more), and many other indexed fields, including person discussed, year discussed, and all of the browse options listed above.

Ann Fessler Coming To UIS 3/21

Ann Fessler, author of The Girls Who Went Away is coming to UIS on Thursday, March 21st at 7pm for a film screening and discussion about the documentary she produced and directed, A Girl Like Her in Brookens Auditorium. A reception will immediately follow the screening and discussion (Light refreshments will be provided). The ECCE event is being co-sponsored by: Friends of Brookens Library, UIS College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIS Women & Gender Studies, UIS Sociology/Anthropology & UIS History.

This is a great event for students, faculty and staff. We hope to see you there!

Film Synopsis - retrieved from agirllikeher.com

A GIRL LIKE HER reveals the hidden history of over a million young women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes to give birth, surrender their children, and return home alone. They were told to keep their secret, move on and forget. But, does a woman forget her child?

The film combines footage from educational films and newsreels of the time period about dating, sex, “illegitimate” pregnancy, and adoption—that both reflected and shaped the public’s understanding of single pregnancy during that time—with the voices of these mothers as they speak today, with hindsight, about the long-term impact of surrender and silence on their lives.

For more information about the film please visit: www.agirllikeher.com

 

EVENT: Lincoln’s Decision Making 10/19

Join us on Friday, October 19th in the Brookens Auditorium for an exciting and engaging program on Lincoln’s decision making: How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator: Lincoln and the Constitutional Limits on Emancipation.

Friday, OCTOBER 19th
Reception: 6pm – PAC Restaurant
Program: 7pm – Brookens Auditorium
Free and open to the public

This event is a part of the the Wepner Symposium on the Lincoln Legacy & Contemporary Scholarship. Sponsored by the Friends of Brookens Library

For more information about the Wepner Symposium visit: http://www.uis.edu/wepner/

Brookens Book Sale 10/5

Join us Friday, October 5 (9am – 4pm) for the Annual Friends of Brookens Library Book Sale! The Book Sale will be located on the Lower Level of Brookens Library – you must go through the media to get there (directional signage will be posted). Prices range from $0.50 to $3.00 so be sure to stock up!
We will accept cash or checks (make check payable to the Friends of Brookens Library). All proceeds go to helping Brookens Library provide users with the best resources, services, and programs possible. Support the library and get a great deal on books!

Library Offers iPad Tours

We are offering several opportunities for students to learn about our resources and services. Using one of the library iPads, your student will get to experience the virtual library offerings while touring our building all at the same time!  By the end they’ll know where to find books and articles, how to access resources from off-campus, where to get research help, and more!

We also offer Online Registration Here

Summer Research Support

Do you have plans for your research this summer? Don’t forget about the Brookens Library. We, librarians, are here throughout the summer to assist you with all of your research needs. If you fancy yourself a DIY researcher we have created a set of short video tutorials made with you in mind. Are you teaching a summer course? If so, be sure to let your students know we are here to ensure their academic success. Encourage your students to contact their librarian or direct them to the video tutorials.

Embedded Librarians

Kvenild, C., & Calkins, K. (2011). Embedded librarians: Moving beyond one-shot instruction. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Are you looking for new, innovative ways to integrate information literacy into your courses?  Consider embedding a librarian.  “Embedded Librarians” refers to a model of integrating librarians and information literacy instruction into courses that moves beyond one-shot instruction. You can add a librarian to your Blackboard course and create a discussion board forum for students to communicate directly with him/her as they work on their research projects. Librarians can also create course-specific library instructional videos with built-in quizzes to embed into Blackboard. For on-campus courses, a librarian could visit your class several times throughout the semester to present information literacy concepts and partner with you to provide feedback to students as they work on a research assignment.  Each library session could take up the entire class period or simply last for 20-30 minutes.  If you would like to discuss options for embedding a librarian into one of your courses, please contact your library liaison.

Know A Librarian – Sarah

Spring has sprung and we are happy to introduce you to yet another one of our fantastic librarians – Sarah!

She came to Springfield in Nov. 2009 after getting her Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. At Brookens, she does the typical librarian stuff: library instruction, research consultations and orders books.  She also manages the Information and Reference Desk, gets her geek on with the library’s iPads, and is 1 of the 3 people behind the tweets and Facebook posts for the library.  If you’re in the library, chances are you’ll see her at the Information and Reference Desk.  When out and about on campus, she can typically be found volunteering at a Student Life event.

There are lots of things Sarah loves about being a librarian.  But one of her favorite parts of the job is buying books for the Curriculum Collection.  With a background in High School English Education, she has always been an avid reader of Young Adult literature.  Books like The Hunger Games, Feed, and The City of Ember are among some of her favorites with Harry Potter at the top of the list.  A huge fan of both the Harry Potter books and the movies, Sarah has read and watched them more times than she can count.  In case you’re wondering, she’s a Hufflepuff and yes, she’s been to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, FL.

Outside of the Library, Sarah spends most of her time hanging out with friends here in Springfield or visiting friends in Chicago and Madison, WI. She enjoys cooking and hosting parties. Other than that, she watches LOTS of movies, both in the theater and at home on her couch.

Snapshot Day 2012

Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Brookens Library is Wednesday, April 18th. Snapshot Day documents the ins and outs of the library through photos. We also use it as an opportunity to ask those using our facility a few simple questions via a survey so we can provide better resources and services. If you participate by taking a survey you will receive a FREE Brookens Library bag – and an entry to win one of 3 $5 value cards that can be used toward food or printing! Feel free to participate yourself or send your students over! We encourage any and all feedback!

Subject-Specific Research Workshops

This March the library will be offering subject-specific research workshops for students, both online and on-campus.  Please help us inform students about these workshops!  They are a great opportunity for students to learn how to conduct research, take advantage of the many library resources available to them, and get one-on-one help from a librarian.  Some are designed for students within particular departments or programs while others will focus on conducting research in particular disciplines (humanities or social sciences). Below is a list of the departments, programs and disciplines in which we will be offering workshops:

College of Business and Management (CBM)
Management and Information Systems (MIS)
Political Science (PSC)
Public Affairs Reporting (PAR)
Teacher Education Program (TEP)
Legal Studies (LES)
Humanities (English, History and Philosophy)
Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Communication)

Visit the Library Calendar to view a full schedule of the dates, times and formats of the workshops.  A great way to ensure your students will attend these workshops is to offer extra credit or other incentive.  If you choose to offer some type of incentive for attending one of the sessions, we will happily notify you by e-mail which of your students attended.  Feel free to contact your library liaison with any questions.