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I ♥ UL - February is Love Your Library Month
February is Love Your Library Month at University Library! To celebrate our mutual affection, University Library is hosting I ♥ UL Day on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. We will be serving coffee and sweet treats, hosting games, and giving away fabulous prizes!
But wait! You do not have to wait until I ♥ UL Day to share your feelings about the library.
WilsonWeb Database Migration to EBSCOhost
Beginning January 6, 2012, all WilsonWeb databases will be available on the EBSCOhost platform. As of that day, all library links will direct patrons to EBSCOhost. The WilsonWeb platform will remain active until February 1, 2012, when it will be retired. While WilsonWeb legacy URLs will automatically redirect to EBSCOhost for the foreseeable future, these should be updated as soon as possible. Please contact the library’s Acquisitions Team if you have any questions.
UPDATED (1/18) : Super Bowl Special Hours Announced
Due to concerns about campus access the weekend of Super Bowl XLVI, University Library will operate on a special schedule. The library will close early at noon on Friday, February 3 and will reopen at noon on Monday, February 6th. The library will be closed Saturday, February 4th and Sunday, February 5th due to large amounts of traffic expected on campus. Operating hours are subject to change February 2–7, 2012, based on traffic conditions and campus access. The library’s electronic resources, including thousands of journals, ebooks and databases, are always available via our website.
Meet Our New Diversity Scholar
University Library would like to introduce Gloria Oluseye-Are as our 2011-2012 Diversity Scholar.
To learn more about Gloria, visit her Diversity Scholar page.
More Than 100 Years of Hoosier Black History Online
A digitization project of the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, done in collaboration with the nationally recognized Indianapolis Recorder newspaper, makes available online 106 years of black history. Indianapolis Recorder Publisher Emeritus Carolene Mays granted IUPUI University Library copyright permission to create a comprehensive online archive of the Recorder. The full-text searchable archive of the African-American newspaper is available at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/Irecorder. The free and open access resource makes more than 5,000 issues of the community newspaper -- dated from 1899 to 2005 and captured from the microfilm version of the weekly broadsheet -- available through the Web.
A digitization project of the University Library at Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis, done in collaboration with
the nationally recognized Indianapolis Recorder newspaper, makes
available online 106 years of black history. Indianapolis
Recorder Publisher Emeritus Carolene Mays granted IUPUI University
Library copyright permission to create a comprehensive online archive of
the Recorder. The full-text searchable archive of the African-American
newspaper is available at the collection's home page.The
free and open access resource makes more than 5,000 issues of the
community newspaper -- dated from 1899 to 2005 and captured from the
microfilm version of the weekly broadsheet -- available through the Web.
"The Indianapolis Recorder is the single most important tool for
researching the history of African-Americans in Indianapolis during the
20th century," said Wilma Moore, senior archivist of African-American
History at the Indiana Historical Society Library & Archives. To
celebrate the launch of the Recorder digital archive, IUPUI University
Library will host a public reception and panel discussion from 3:30 to
5:30 p.m., Sept. 25, at the Indiana Landmarks Center, located at 1201
Central Ave. in Indianapolis. The event, which is open to the general
public, will bring the wider Indianapolis community together to
commemorate the rich history of the newspaper. It is rare for
newspapers to make their copyright backfiles available, and in most
cases newspapers published after 1923 are not available on the Web,
according to University Library Dean David Lewis. "The Recorder
was known for its local coverage of news that was important to the
Indianapolis African-American community," Lewis said. "Because of the
nature of the reporting done by the Recorder and the willingness to make
the full backfile publically available, this is a special resource,
especially for Indianapolis, but well beyond. It will be used by
genealogists, students and researchers who are looking to learn more
about their families, their neighborhoods and Indianapolis." The
digital product also provides a new opportunity for the Indianapolis
community to help fill in long-lost issues of the paper. Missing from
the historical record are Recorder issues published from 1917 to 1925,
and January to April of 1932. Individuals with copies of -- or clips
from -- the missing issues should contact Jennifer Johnson at
317-278-6709 for additional information. Over the past 10 years,
IUPUI University Library has partnered with Indianapolis organizations
to produce more than 60 unique digital collections. Other collections
that include Indianapolis black history are: The Indianapolis Public
School Crispus Attucks Museum Collection 1928-1986; The Flanner House
Records Collection 1936-1992; and the Ransom Place Collection. To explore and learn more about the IUPUI University Library digital collections, go to http://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship. Once at the site, browse the subject African-Americans. Located
at 755 W. Michigan St. on the IUPUI campus, IUPUI University Library is
a public academic library, serving the people of Indiana as well as the
university population. Any state resident with a valid I.D. is eligible
for a borrower's card. Visit the library on the Web at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu.
Last updated by andjsmit on 01/04/2012
Celebrating the life and work of Robert L. Payton
If you are unable to attend in person, please sign the Payton Memorial Guestbook or watch the live video stream of the October 1st event.
If you are unable to attend in person, please sign the Payton Memorial Guestbook or watch the live video stream of the October 1st event.
Last updated by andjsmit on 01/04/2012
New Library Lab Supports Student Success and Life-Long LearningIn information literacy classes, taught by the librarians at IUPUI, college students learn critical thinking and research skills that are vitally important to both their academic and professional careers. INDIANPOLIS―IUPUI University Library announces the launch of its new 2120 Learning Lab, an innovative new instructional space designed especially for library classes. In cooperation with other faculty from various schools across campus, like the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business, IUPUI librarians teach students how to effectively target and evaluate electronic information, as well as how to use it responsibly. The work they do in the new learning lab will enable students to better: • Organize and conduct results oriented research • Assess needed information effectively and efficiently • Evaluate information and its sources Library classes include students from all levels at IUPUI, but focus in particular on incoming freshmen, teaching core skills that will help them complete a degree at IUPUI and equip them for a career in the 21st Century workplace.
Last updated by kpsorrel on 03/03/2011
IUPUI 2012 Photo Calendar Caption Contest
Last updated by andjsmit on 01/06/2012
International Newsroom @ University LibraryNews broadcasts from around the world!Visit the International Newsroom in UL 2135 (2nd floor reference room) and view news and other programming available on our six flat-screen TVs:
Last updated by kgreatba on 03/02/2010
IUPUI University Library creates robust 3-D online repository of Conner Prairie’s historical clothing collection
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