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• Information on upcoming library events,
• People making a difference at IUPUI,
• Library resources.

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University Library was well represented in the first annual IUPUI Regatta: A Canoe Race on the Canal held September 19th, 2009. The event was sponsored by the Student Organization for Alumni Relations (SOAR), the Central Indiana Chapter of the IU Alumni Association and the IUPUI Alumni Council. Congratulations to the University Library Information Paddlers Team: Fran Huehls, Jessica Trinoskey, Jaena Hollingsworth, Jenny Johnson, Anna Proctor, and the library’s Dean, David Lewis.

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As students returned to the IUPUI campus this fall, the IUPUI University Library opened its International Newsroom giving students and community patrons access to live newsfeeds from international networks such as Al Jazeera, TV9 Telegu, CCTV3 China, WOW-TV Korea, EuroNews and CNN ESPAÑOL .

The new library space comfortably accommodates 20-25 patrons and is equipped with a wireless audio visual system and flat-screen monitors. In an effort to be responsive to changing patron needs, the library will continue to improve the International Newsroom to offer students and patrons a variety of formats for accessing global news.

The Newsroom will also be a meaningful resource for those studying journalism, foreign affairs and languages and to international students and library patrons.

The International Newsroom aligns with the Indiana University's Research, International Service Learning, and Experiential Learning (RISE) Initiative, which is a program to expand student engagement that includes international study experiences that enhance students' understanding of the world and special service learning opportunities. The International Newsroom will support the RISE Initiative and enable students and public patrons to tap into important news sources from across the globe that will connect them with events, create opportunities and foster understanding.

International study is evolving into an essential component of a world-class education. According to a recent study by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, 72% of employers want colleges to put more emphasis on Intercultural Knowledge and Global Issues.

For more information about the library's International Newsroom, please contact David Lewis, University Library Dean at (317) 274-0493 or at dlewis@iupui.edu.

 

Text A Librarian is a new service for mobile phone users with questions. Send a new text message to 66746. Begin the message with our keyword: iupui. A reply will arrive shortly. (more info) Give it a try!

 

 

INDIANAPOLIS—IUPUI University Library, in collaboration with Conner Prairie, received a Library Service Technology Act (LSTA) digitization grant for over $11,000 to create the museum’s newest online digital collection entitled: Conner Prairie’s Traditional Crafts: Preservation and Reproduction making yet more of the organization’s resources accessible to the public on-line, especially Hoosier K-12 students. While the collection will highlight artisan crafts such as pottery making, arms making and blacksmithing, it also emphasizes the role of museums in preserving age-old skills through teaching, reproduction and research, explains David Lewis, Dean of the University Library. Over the next12 months, the library’s Digital Libraries Team will use 3D imaging technology to photograph approximately 85 artifacts from the collection at Conner Prairie.  Most of these objects date back to the 1800s and are extremely fragile.

In addition, the library team will also scan and place archived editions of Conner Prairie’s Voice of the Hammer and The Art and Mystery of Blacksmithing publications along with three short videos, featuring artisans demonstrating and talking about the history of their craft in the collection, making for a comprehensive online resource.

The University Library will also collaborate with the School of Education at IUPUI to create K-12 standards-based lesson plans and evaluation/assessment components for the collection, making it a valuable teaching aid for classroom instruction.

“Conner Prairie is pleased to join with IUPUI University Library on our third collaborative effort. We appreciate the opportunity to continue our excellent and mutually beneficial relationship with the University Library by fully committing our efforts to the Conner Prairie Traditional Crafts Project as part of the LSTA Grant,” says Tim Crumrin, Deputy Director, Museum Experience at Conner Prairie.

In the past, University Library has worked with Conner Prairie to digitize the museum’s collection of quilts, coverlets and sampler and most recently its historical clothing and textile collections.  The historical clothing collection will become available on-line in July 2009.

Over the past 10 years, the University Library has received LSTA digitization grants to collaborate with many other Indiana nonprofit organizations such as the Indiana State Archives, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, the Geography and Map Library Indiana University, Indiana Historical Society, and the Hancock County Public Library/Riley Old Home Society.

The University Library has used its digital capability to create more than 40 unique collections.  And it continues to explore new ways to use digital technology to provide for the long-term preservation and accessibility of information and educational resources in a variety of formats for a broad audience via the World Wide Web.

Located at 755 W. Michigan Avenue in the heart of the IUPUI campus, the University Library is a public library, serving the people of Indiana as well as the university population. 

Any resident of Indiana is eligible for an IUPUI University Library card.  Our resources and librarians are also available on-line at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu. Browse our on-line collections to learn more about the road to Indiana Statehood, the history of the National FFA Organization, the writer James Whitcomb Riley and much more, or contact a librarian specialist for help with professional and school-related research.

 

Indianapolis, IN-The University Library at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis is working with other partners in the Midwest to send books and computers to the Margaret Thatcher Library at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. The initiative is a part of larger collaboration between Indiana University and Moi University that began with a medical outreach program.

In the late 1980's, the Indiana University Medical School and Moi University in Kenya began a partnership that led to the launch of a new Kenyan medical school. The Moi Medical School graduated its first class of physicians in 1997, thus growing Kenya's capacity to serve its own people. In 2001, this partnership was expanded by establishing a joint program for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Encompassing nineteen adult and pediatric HIV/AIDS centers, the program has grown to serve over 55,000 patients. The Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV (AMPATH) and its founder, Dr. Joe Mamlin, were both nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and again in 2008. The powerful impact of IU Medicine's AMPATH program has led other IU groups to look for ways to contribute to the outreach effort in Kenya.

In the spring of 2007, Dean David Lewis of the IUPUI University Library travelled to Eldoret, Kenya to visit the library at Moi University, which serves a community of 20,193 students and over 3,000 staff. While the Moi Library collection of books and other resources is diverse and well cared for, it is comparatively small. In addition to books, the Moi library is in need of computers. As a result of Dean Lewis' visit, the IUPUI University Library made a commitment to help the library at Moi develop its collections and improve the technology options available on-site. IUPUI's University Library has collected computers and servers as well as more than 1,500 volumes of valuable reference resources for the library at Moi, all of which have been carefully organized and packed by volunteer students. In the fall of 2008, librarians from the Moi library travelled to Indianapolis to learn more about the IUPUI library's teaching and research programs, which focus heavily on using new technologies in the library environment.

To transport the materials to Kenya, the IUPUI University Library is collaborating with two national organizations-Better World Books, based in northern Indiana, and Books for Africa, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Books for Africa is a U.S.-based non-profit that collects books donated by publishers, schools, libraries and individuals and then sorts, ships and distributes them to libraries and youth agencies in Africa. Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. To date they've raised over $5.4 million for more than 80 literacy and education non-profit groups across the globe.

Better World has donated nearly one million books to partner programs across the globe including, Books for Africa and the National Center for Family Literacy. They have also established the Better World Books Fund to finance specific shipments of books through Books for Africa. Better World Books facilitated the IUPUI library's shipment to Moi with a $5,000 donation from this fund. From its shelves, Books for Africa will add books to those already collected for the Moi Library, focusing on fields of study that are central to the curriculum at Moi. These include, Business and Economics, Science and Engineering and Medical and Health books, among others. The total shipment to the Moi library will include about 1,000 cartons of books. Along with Better World Books and Books for Africa, a local Indianapolis business leader, Stuart's Household Moving and Storage, has also donated services and expertise to the Books for Moi project.

Indiana University has a distinguished tradition of fostering international studies, creating global outreach initiatives, and welcoming international students and faculty to its academic programs. The IUPUI University Library's cooperative effort with Moi University Library is emblematic of IU's efforts to be a leader in the international academic community. It is also a natural outgrowth of IUPUI's mission focus on service learning and civic engagement. In addition to fostering the exchange of resources and expertise, this innovative partnership creates unique research and learning opportunities for faculty and students at both universities and identifies IUPUI, as an active collaborator in the global community.

For more information please contact:

IUPUI University Library KINDRA ORR, Director of Development 317-278-2338 ksorr@iupui.edu		Books For Africa     Patrick Plonski, Executive Director     651-291-2713     Patrick@booksforafrica.org
Better World Books MARGARET BENSFIELD, Group SJR 212-751-3476 mbensfield@groupsjr.com		Moi University Library, Eldoret, Kenya     Dr. Tirong arap Tanui, University Librarian     Tel: +254 (0)53 43720     ttanui@mu.ac.ke

 

University Library's Program of Digital Scholarship provides the IUPUI community with a variety of tools and services for sharing and managing their digital scholarly assets including but not limited to: Published articles, White papers, Conference presentations, Images, Artifacts, Reusable Learning Objects, Theses and dissertations, Historic texts, Data sets, and Multimedia files. Faculty may apply for grant funding through University Library in support of posting a collection of their digital scholarship.  See Faculty Grants for Digital Scholarship for more information.

Check if your are eligible for any of the following Awards and Fellowships. If so, please apply.

 

• Diversity Fellowship
• Student Employee Scholarship
• Undergraduate Reasearch Award

Where: Joseph and Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library, UL2110

When: Open daily during regular library hours

IUPUI values diversity and the University Library actively supports the campus community in learning about how diversity plays an important role in our daily lives. Diversity is a hot topic today at IUPUI and understanding past issues will make our students more informed advocates and leaders.

The Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives proudly presents “Diversity: Windows in History,” a new display focused on exploring the themes of Activism, Education, Diversity, Advocacy, Empowerment and Awareness relating to diversity. With pieces from the Archives dating back to 1929, the exhibit shows how issues have been addressed and debated throughout the decades.

The IUPUI University Library is a campus destination for innovation and sharing of knowledge. Learn more about University Library online at www.ulib. iupui.edu. Learn more about the Ruth Lilly Special Collections online at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/special/. For additional information, please contact the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archive at speccoll@iupui.edu or 317-274-0464.