July 2023

Kimberly Shotick, Student Success Librarian at Northern Illinois University, is the ACRL Member of the Week for July 10-16. To read her Member of the Week interview, including what she values most about working with college students and how she has benefited from membership in ACRL, please go to https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/acrl-member-of-the-week-kimberly-shotick/.

The NIU Libraries have selected Dr. Owen Clayton as the recipient of the first Pick/Laudati Rare Books and Special Collections Fellowship. This award uses funds from the Pick/Laudati library endowment for the recipient to visit the NIU Libraries for two weeks, conducting research using our Rare Books and Special Collections. 

Dr. Kelly Ross is an Associate Professor of English at Rider University where she teaches courses in American literature, African American literature, and crime fiction and film. She is the author of Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford University Press, 2023), and her essays have appeared

In fiscal year 2023, the NIU Libraries started special project support for equity, diversity, and inclusion in its collections. Library faculty applied for and received funding to buy materials in areas they chose to target for enhancement. Seven proposals were funded for purchase of 296 items costing a total of