As of July 2022, the NIU Libraries provide access to Academic Video Online (AVON). This resource includes over 79,000 streaming videos on a wide variety of topics, from business to health to music. Many are from familiar producers like PBS, Film Platform, BBC, CNN, A&E, PBS, 60 Minutes, Bloomberg, Sony
Read moreAlissa Droog, Assistant Professor, Education & Social Sciences Librarian, recently published “Bible Story Teachings: A Survey of Children’s Bible Stories about Creation in 19th Century Britain” in the Journal of Religious & Theological Information. The paper is based in her MA research on historical children’s Bible stories. Abstract: Every retelling
Read moreThe 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 moreWhen 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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Kimberly Shotick, Assistant Professor and Student Success Librarian at the University Libraries, has co-authored the book Practical Marketing for the Academic Library with Stephanie Espinoza Villamor. Their book details the processes involved in successful academic library marketing from creating a marketing team to assessing outcomes. The book contains case studies
Read moreOn May 5th, 2022, NIU Libraries celebrated faculty authors who published or edited books during 2020 and 2021. The celebration highlighted scholarly excellence and included works by faculty from the colleges of Business, Education, Liberal Arts & Sciences, the School of Visual and Performing Arts, and the University Libraries. In
Read moreAlissa Droog recently co-authored a short reflective article with Joanna Nemeth at Athabasca University: Reflecting on our Time as Digital Literacies Librarians in Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals. In this article, the authors reflection on their experiences as Digital Literacy/ies Librarians, the ambiguity
Read moreNorthern Illinois University is a Carnegie 2 research institution tucked away in DeKalb. It has the distinction of being home to Illinois’ only Center for Southeast Asia Studies. The Founders Memorial Library holds a distinctive collection of materials to support the work of the Center. In addition to his responsibilities
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NIU Libraries Dean Fred Barnhart, a champion of student success who played a key role in helping the university weather pandemic-related challenges, has accepted a second four-year appointment. “I’m excited to continue our work as we demonstrate that University Libraries is much more than books on the shelf or databases on a
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