New UI&U Library Resources

Susan Whitehead and Matt Pappathan continue to provide innovative and helpful resources for our faculty through the UI&U Library. In an effort to support and promote both an engaging learning experience for our students, as well as the professional development and equipping of our instructors, I wanted to highlight some of the library’s latest tools and resources.

• Our library recently subscribed to the Films on Demand Master Academic Collection database which includes 11,200 full length videos and 166,000 video clips. Major subject categories include the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Economics, Health/Medicine, Science, and Mathematics. Archival films and newsreels are also included. Access is delivered via online streaming technology and is ideally suited for online classroom or individual usage. Follow the link to the Library’s resource page, scroll down to Films on Demand, and enter the site by typing in your Union ID and password.
• The UI&U Library now provides access to the Chronicle of Higher Education without the additional step of logging in through our proxy server. This is the premier news source of post-secondary education. Log in to find out academic, technological and administrative trends nationally and globally. Go to chronicle.com, and in the upper right hand corner, click log in. (Don’t subscribe! We’ve done that for you!) Then create a free account with your Union email. You maintain the same account whether you’re at one of our centers, at home, working on your laptop, desktop, or iPad. You can download the app from the iTunes store here or by searching for it by name. It appears in the newsstand and you simply log in or create an account with your Union email.
• Our library will soon be adding online subscriptions to two new research journals in response to requests from our Ph. D. program. Both journals will become available to our community in early in 2014 with the start of their newest volumes.

-The International Journal of Servant Leadership is an annual publication that contains cross-disciplinary essays relating to politics, business, social justice, science, and a holistic and ethical approach to community engagement and personal growth.

-Political Communication is a quarterly journal that focuses on the interplay of various forms of communication and their political implications. The journal presents cross-disciplinary, avant-garde research and encourages a variety of theoretical approaches and analytical methods examining communication policy and practice.

• Our library continues to build its electronic book collections. We recently exceeded 200,000 titles and are rapidly expanding our holdings. Check the UI&U Library Blog site to see this list of latest additions!