A new exhibition on display in the Special Collections Reading Room through December 22, 2022, focuses on photographic portraiture from the 19th and 20th centuries.
New exhibit highlights portrait photography in Milner Library Special Collections
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Unit: Milner Library
School of Theatre and Dance programs now online
Through a partnership between Milner Library and the School of Theatre and Dance, around 190 programs have been added to the School’s collection on ISUReD. Patrons can now browse production programs that date back to 1957 and feature hundreds of the school’s theatre and dance students, faculty, and staff.
Graphic design legend Rick Valicenti donates works to Illinois State University
Famed graphic designer Rick Valicenti is donating more than 100 pieces of his design work to the Wonsook Kim School of Art and Milner Library at Illinois State.
Redbirds explore opportunities with on-campus internships
Redbirds landed internships across the country and across campus over the summer. We interviewed students who held on-campus internships to see what they learned, what they worked on, and how they’re following their passions outside of the classroom.
Keeping up with Open Access
As the fall semester begins and we welcome our students and faculty back to classes, we hope you’re excited about scholarly communications and Open Access too.
Illinois State prepares to welcome new instructors to campus
More than 80 new tenure- and non-tenure track faculty members are set to participate in New Faculty Orientation 2022.
Scholarship of scholarly communications
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.
Advisory group recommends Canvas as Illinois State’s next LMS
If approved by the Board of Trustees, work will begin in earnest to replace ReggieNet with Canvas by the fall of 2023.
Feedback requested on Milner Library’s Vision for Student Success
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.
Complete run of Illinois Shakespeare Festival programs now online
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.
