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.

Webinar: Publicly Funded Resources Thurs 2/21

FACULTY: Brookens Library has reserved LIB 141A, in the Media Services area, for the Understanding Public Access to Publicly Funded Resources webinar at 3:00 on Thursday, Feb. 21.  

Understanding Public Access to Publicly Funded Resources Webinar
The Internet, increasingly affordable computing, open licensing, open access journals and open educational resources provide the foundation for a world in which a quality education can be a basic human right. Yet before we break the “iron triangle” of access, cost and quality with new models, we need to develop sustainable open business models with open policies: public access to publicly funded resources. – eBib

Join us with Dr. Cable Green from Creative Commons, as we discuss specific initiatives for open educational resources. Dr. Green is Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons.  He previously served as Director of eLearning & Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges.

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

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

Faculty Open House 9/11 (2-4pm)

You are invited to the Brookens Library Faculty Open House! This is a great opportunity to meet your library liaison and learn about the many  resources and services we provide to you and the UIS community. Archives, CINRC (Central Illinois Nonprofit Resource Center), the Media Lab, CTL (Center for Teaching and Learning), & COLRS (Center for Online Learning, Research & Service) will also be at the open house. We’d love to see you there.

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.

Designing Research Assignments

Need help designing research assignments for your students?  Consider working with your library liaison.  Each department at UIS is assigned a library liaison to assist you with just this type of project.  In working with librarians, your assignments will allow students to take advantage of the library resources available to them at UIS.

Read the following article for more information:

For Better Research Assignments, Ask a Librarian
Beth Schuck – Faculty Focus

Brookens Library Faculty Open House

Linking to Library Materials

If you provide your students with links to library resources, please make sure you are using the persistent URL (otherwise referred to as the “permalink” or “stable URL”) provided by the database.  The easiest option is to find the article through Quick Search and click on “Permalink” in the top right corner of the page.

You can also create course resource lists through Quick Search that you can easily link to from your syllabi and Blackboard. Students will be able to access the full text directly from Quick Search if the library subscribes to that resource.  Using this resource will save you time, free up some space in your syllabi, and better connect students with library resources.

If you prefer to use the links from the databases, the persistent URLs should include the library EZproxy to ensure that students can access library resources from off-campus.  EBSCOhost databases always include the EZproxy in persistent URLs.  JSTOR is an example of a database that provides a “stable URL” but does not include the library EZproxy. Students will not be able to access JSTOR articles from off-campus using the stable URL if you do not add the EZproxy.  Solution?  Place the EZproxy (http://ezproxy.uis.edu:2048/login?url=) before the stable URL. Remember to test it from off-campus before sharing with your students.  Please contact your library liaison if you have any questions.

Stable URL for JSTOR article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2205659
EZproxy plus Stable URL: http://ezproxy.uis.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2205659