Milner Library’s unofficial motto “Here to Help” is taking on new meaning during the coronavirus pandemic, as the library shifts services and resources to best serve the campus community.
Milner Library finding new ways to help during pandemic
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Smithsonian open access
Milner Library loves working with creators to lower barriers to the access of their scholarly and creative works through ISU ReD and other resources like the Smithsonian.
Milner Library introduces Digital Discussions event series
Digital Discussions is a new event series featuring scholar lectures, workshops, and informal gatherings for faculty and students to talk about their interest in digital humanities and digital scholarship.
Explore culture through student art with FOOD for THOUGHT exhibit
As part of their coursework students created information design posters about one dish from their ancestral country and traced its history, ingredients and relevance culminating in the FOOD for THOUGHT exhibit.
Ange’s Keepers giving society honors University’s first librarian
Ange’s Keepers is a giving society that honors the University’s first librarian and the proud tradition of service to students that she established.
Open Access Digital Theological Library
Collections of open access materials often have different focuses, such as Open Access Digital Theological Library which collects materials about religious studies and related disciplines.
Keeping it 100! Celebrating Milner’s Contributions to ISU ReD
What do librarians write about? Find out in this review of the 100 items that Milner faculty and staff have submitted to ISU ReD.
Finding a future at the library
Sometimes, students find more than books and information at the library. In Maddi Loiselle’s case, she found her calling.
How do you make a book free for everyone? Unglue.It
Unglue.It is a nonprofit program that works with authors and publishers to place books into the public domain by agreeing on a price and then crowdsourcing the funds to pay the rights holder to issue the book under a Creative Commons license.
Wikipedia and libraries: Revolution through collaboration
Milner librarians worked on a collaborative project to learn what resources are necessary to add demographic terms to library catalog records in order to improve information discoverability and access.
