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

 

University Archives Website Update

The University of Illinois Springfield Archives/Special Collections & Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) is in the process of updating their website. Between Monday, February 18, 2013 and Sunday, March 3, 2013 you will be giving the option to choose between the current version of the website and the new updated version of the website with a prompt. Effective Monday, March 4th the site will officially switch over the NEW website.

The first image is the CURRENT website – consider this the BEFORE. The second image is the NEW website – in other words the AFTER. We hope you like the changes.

The AFTER is Below:

The Implications and Opportunities of Big Data – A. Croll

Alistair Croll, technology marketing entrepreneur and writer, gave a presentation on “The Implications and Opportunities of Big Data” at the OCLC Symposium on January 25 during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.  Big Data, or datasets that are too large to manage using traditional hardware and software, can nevertheless provide levels of analysis that were previously almost impossible.  While the uses of big data can be beneficial, uses can be envisioned that have serious implications for privacy and security.  Mr. Croll explores these issues in a thought-provoking manner.

FDO: Copyright

Did you miss the latest Faculty Development Office’s workshop on “Copyright and Fair Use for the Classroom”? We have the slides from the presentation available for your review! For questions contact Stephen McMinn: stephen.mcminn@uis.edu

Copyright in the classroom from Brookens Library

Trial Subscription begins 1/13: HeinOnline

Brookens Library is pleased to announce a trial subscription to HeinOnline, a legal history database. Our official subscription will begin in January 2013.

HeinOnline is a research product with more than 70 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,500 law and law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.

Political Science faculty and students may be interested in the U. S. Presidential Library, Foreign Relations of the United States, and World Constitutions Illustrated.

HeinOnline provides exact page images of the documents in PDF format just as they appear in the original print. This means that all charts, graphs, tables, pictures, hand written notes, photographs, and footnotes appear where they belong!   What makes HeinOnline unique aside from its image-based PDF content is its historical value and the availability of titles back to their inception.

Access HeinOnline through the Legal Studies Research Guide

-information acquired from HeinOnline

Gov Docs Blog Series: 1

 UIS Government Documents Depository

GPO Approves Action Plan for Illinois Federal Depository Libraries

During the past year, the federal Government Printing Office began laying groundwork to require libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), like the Illinois State Library, to complete a forecast survey for their institution. Out of those individual forecasts, each region was then asked to create a State Forecast and Focused Action Plan that would cover the next five years.

With input from the Illinois Federal Depository community, the Illinois Government Depository Council completed and submitted a plan for Illinois. The State Action Plan outlines activities that the Federal Government Documents community will work on in an effort to improve and strengthen the FDLP in Illinois. The plan is located at:

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/depository_programs/pdfs/focused_action_plan.pdf

(source: Illinois State Library E-news, 9/7/2012)

Why is Information Literacy Important?

Information literacy, which encompasses the skills used to access, evaluate, integrate and communicate information, is about empowering individuals to become self-sufficient lifelong learners. This truly interdisciplinary endeavor is expressed in the UIS Goals and Learning Outcomes for Baccalaureate Education.

Information literacy is the foundation of research ability. From identifying and locating the resources you need, to evaluating the quality of those resources, information literacy instruction gives the individual the tools to be successful in the classroom and the workplace.

Contact your Librarian Liaison for ways to improve the information literacy of your students: http://libguides.uis.edu/librarians

Information Literacy Month

Now that Information Literacy Awareness Month is in full swing, we thought we’d take some time to talk about the folks behind all this:  the National Forum on Information Literacy.

The NFIL was created in 1989 as a response to the recommendations of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. These education, library, and business leaders stated that no other change in American society has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the Information Age.

Today, the NFIL is a robust collaborative of 93 + national and international organizations working together, on various levels, to mainstream this critical, 21st century educational and workforce development concept throughout every segment of society.

It is the work of the National Forum to maintain the visibility of information literacy by collaborating on a variety of activities with a host of organizations, schools, colleges/universities, businesses, and governmental agencies to insure that information literacy is not overlooked and/or undervalued in the corridors of public policy as it moves forward with empowering all Americans to their fullest economic and social potential.

You can read more information about the National Forum on Information Literacy and its mission here:  http://infolit.org/about-the-nfil/what-is-the-nfil/

-Retrieved from http://infolit.org/

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/