The Founders’ Memorial Library at Northern Illinois University has been exceedingly fortunate to employ a highly competent and skilled support staff dedicated to serving its students and faculty. They play a major role in everyone’s success by supporting their studies, teaching, and research with their tireless work. Ron Barshinger has
Read moreOn this day in 1865 – Robert Ridinger curates Juneteenth reading list
When Robert Ridinger began the process of identifying books about Juneteenth, he expected to find mostly historical texts written for adults and adolescents. That wasn’t the case. “And I looked under every rock I could think of,” says Ridinger, a professor and subject specialist librarian at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. “I knew what the
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