As librarians our discussions of scholarly communication topics often focus on how they can benefit our users as a service, such as the Textbook Affordability Committee’s work with faculty members to make open-access textbooks available to students.
If approved by the Board of Trustees, work will begin in earnest to replace ReggieNet with Canvas by the fall of 2023.
Milner Library is currently developing a Vision for Student Success that will articulate the library’s work to support student success at Illinois State University and fulfill a goal of the library’s current strategic plan.
Thanks to a collaboration between the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and Milner Library, copies of printed programs from the 1978 to 2019 Illinois Shakespeare Festivals are available online in Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD. These materials are freely available to everyone.
Assistant Professor Mallory Jallas and Senior Library Specialist Elizabeth Babin draw upon Milner Library’s collections for recommendations on readings to celebrate Pride Month.
Browse the newest acquisition in Milner Library’s special collections—Tabula super libros de civitate Dei [roughly translated as a Guide to the City of God], a companion manuscript to Augustine of Hippo’s City of God.
Summer is a great time to donate your papers, flash drives, meeting notes, photos, annual reports, artifacts, and other ISU documents or memorabilia to Milner Library’s Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield University Archives.
Open Access is a frequent topic of our news items from the Scholarly Communication Team, not just for its own sake but for the ways it can open new avenues and methods of research for our faculty, students, and staff.
The refereed, open access journal International Journal for Business Education (IJBE) is now hosted on Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD.
One of the joys of working with scholarly communications and Open Access materials is seeing how our colleagues around the world have embraced the movement, and how their work can benefit our users. With the semester winding down, we certainly hope our readers will take a well-deserved break but some of you might already be thinking of next year’s classes.
