Even though classes are out, The Library will remain open for regular operating hours throughout the week of Spring Break. All normal services including circulation, the reference desk, and the MLRC will be available.
The CCICS Library is also open this week, but with different hours, while the Library Resource Center at El Centro is closed until next week. Enjoy the break and good luck to students as you begin preparing for upcoming final exams.
March’s Golden Eagles Book Club selection, Candace Gingrich-Jones’ The Accidental Activist has been placed on special reserve and is available for 2 day loans for the rest of the month.
On Wednesday, March 14 at 12 pm in SU 218 Dr. Vicki Byard will be leading a discussion of the book. Then on Thursday, March 29 at 7:00 pm the author will be appearing to discuss her own work in the NEIU auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
April’s selection, Parker J. Palmer’s The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal is also on special reserve.
For the month of March, American National Biography Online has put together a special collection celebrating Women’s History Month.
This small, highly selective set of articles is recommended by Oxford editors to help students get started doing research in this massive, 19,000-biography collection and The Oxford Companion to United States History encyclopedia content that supports it. Browse the list or start with an overview article and follow the links.
American National Biography Women’s History Month Collection
Faculty publishing books in 2011 include:The event is sponsored by Vicki Román-Lagunas, Acting Provost and Bradley F. Baker, Dean of Libraries and Learning Resources.
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Tony Adams
Michael Armato
Lawrence Berlin
John Bliss
Lawrence O. Dean
Timothy Duggan
Maria Teresa Garretón
Martin Giesso
Edmund Hansen
Effie Kritikos
Phyllis Le Dosquet
Elyse Mach
Shahrzad Mahootian
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Mark Melton
Edward Odisho
Patricio Rizzo-Vast
John Ross, Jr.
Zachary Schiffman
Christopher Schroeder
Brian Schultz
Terry Stirling
Martha Thompson
Brian Torosian
Lance Williams
Qiumei Jane Xu
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In honor of Women’s History Month, the Library will be hosting NEIU’s Women’s Art Exhibit from March 3rd through the 23rd. The exhibit can be found on the first floor during regular Library hours.
The boycott of science journal publisher Elsevier continues to grow with now over 7,000 academics pledging to not support any affiliated journals. Protestors argue that by bundling together essential journals with less important ones, libraries are forced to pay inflated subscription fees.
For more information see coverage from NPR’s On the Media or visit the boycott’s homepage.
In recognition of Black History Month, American National Biography Online has put together a special collection of around 500 articles “covering a range of time periods and occupations that are representative of African-American history.”
American National Biographies Online: Black History Collection
The collection does not include every article related to black history. Rather, the articles were selected to enable quick access to a sizable number of relevant biographies.
Kathy Joleaud, NEIU Alum
Greenleaf Art Center
on display through February 17, 2012
This past week, many news sources are reporting that scientists around the world have begun a protest against the world’s largest science journal publisher, Elsevier. In the past 10 days, more than 3,000 scientists have signed an online pledge not to publish or do editorial work for the company’s journals. They argue that Elsevier and similar publishers have created an oligopoly that threatens access to information and the future of university libraries. For the full story, see articles published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science , The Chronicle of Higher Ed , and The Guardian.
The Library is supporting the College of Business and Management’s One Book per Semester (OBPS) during the spring 2012 semester. The Library has purchased a copy of Thomas Huynh’s translation of The Art of War—Spirituality for Conflict, Sun Tzu’s classic treatise on military strategy, and placed the copy on two-hour reserve at the Library’s Circulation Desk that is located on the first floor. The copy is listed under the course MNGT OBPS.
