Spring Library Tours

Faculty: Do your students need a refresher on what Brookens Library offers? If so, send them on a Library Tour! We’ve scheduled both on-campus Tours and online Virtual Tours for Spring semester. The Tour covers where to find books and articles, how to access resources from off-campus, where to get research help, and more!

See the links below for dates, times, and registration. Registration is encouraged but not required for individual students; they can just drop-in! No need to worry about verifying attendance: we will send you an email with the names of your students who attended.

If you would like a tour or other library instruction during class time, contact your Library Liaison to schedule. (We do online instruction, too.)

Tues, January 29, 2013 – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm  Virtual Library Tour

Wed, January 30, 2013 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm  On-Campus Library Tour

Thurs, January 31, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Virtual Library Tour

Tues, February 5, 2013 – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm  On-Campus Library Tour

Wed, February 6, 2013 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm  Virtual Library Tour

Thurs, February 7, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  On-Campus Library Tour

- Dorothy Hemmo -

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)

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/

University Scholar 2012

Congratulations to Associate Professor Lan Dong, English for being named the 2012 University Scholar! Professor Dong is a great example of Leadership Lived and we are proud to have her as a part of our staff.

Brookens Library is currently featuring published works from faculty in a display on the main level near the entrance. Check out some of the faculty publications we have added to our collection in the past year here: http://bit.ly/PT6I3o

Congratulations Professor Lan Dong!

Know a Librarian: Pamela

Last month we kicked off our “Know a Librarian” series. Each month during Spring & Fall we will feature one of our fabulous faculty librarians. This month we want you to get to know Pamela M. Salela, Associate Professor & Coordinator of (CINRC) Central Illinois Nonprofit Resource Center.

Pamela holds a M.S. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign (UIUC) & a M.S. in Library & Information Science from UIUC.  She also earned both an undergraduate & graduate minors in Women’s Studies. She brings her passion and interest in the field to UIS where she is currently teaching WGS301: Intro to Women, Gender & Society.

At Brookens, Pamela serves as the library liaison to Women, Gender & Society, African American Studies, Music, Public Administration and Educational Leadership. She’s also very active on the UIS campus, particularly in campus governance – Senate, Campus Planning & Budgeting. She loves helping students at the reference desk & really enjoys finding those teachable moments.

She also works with the Brookens government documents collection and was recently appointed to the Illinois Government Depository Council. She’s active in the Association of College & Research Libraries and is co-chairing a Program Planning Committee for the annual American Library Association Conference that will be held in Chicago in 2013.

Pamela’s talents & interests don’t end there! She’s passionate about music, theater, exercise, travel & her cats (one Italian, one Chinese, & one African American).

Though she loves all kinds of music, she is especially fond of classical, jazz and folk. While in graduate school Pamela sang in many choirs on our sister campus in Champaign-Urbana including Amasong, Chorus, Oratorio Society, Slavik Choir and chamber choir. She has also done some solo jazz as well as folk, where she will occasionally accompany herself on guitar. Pamela has been a part of several theatrical productions over the years & she is currently assisting the UIS theatre department with locating sound effects for True West.

Phew! She’s one busy, fascinating and active lady – and there’s more to her than we can squeeze in this post! We’re glad you got to know her a little better!

Inside Higher Ed Article

CLICK ME TO GO THE ARTICLE! Several Brookens Library Staff Members Participated In This Study

Check out this great article which talks about a research project that Brookens Library participated in!

Several Brookens Librarians participated in this study from 2008-2010.  Among other things, our findings led us to institute the library workshop series that we market directly to students.  If you do not have time in your course to invite a librarian in to the classroom to offer information literary instruction, we urge you to think about offering extra credit for students who attend one of these workshops. Library instruction really does make a difference!

Here is an exerpt from the article:

“The ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project — a series of studies conducted at Illinois Wesleyan, DePaul University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois’s Chicago and Springfield campuses — was a meta-exercise for the librarians in practicing the sort of deep research they champion. Instead of relying on surveys, the libraries enlisted two anthropologists, along with their own staff members, to collect data using open-ended interviews and direct observation, among other methods.”

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