TAL News and Events
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Sep 29th, 2009
That is a health-awareness slogan spotted by one of our librarians in a local school and a helpful thing to remember as we approach the time of year when we’re all cooped up inside. Then there’s the added joy that thoughts of the upcoming flu season bring!
Lots of flu news has been in the headlines this year, so we thought a [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Sep 29th, 2009
Illinois Wesleyan University Professor of History W. Michael Weis will present “John Adams and the Origins of American Diplomacy” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, in Beckman Auditorium in The Ames Library. The event is free and open to the public.
Weis will speak on the significance of Adams as a founder of the U.S. diplomatic [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Mar 1st, 2009
This semester, the Ames Library is offering the university community access to a Newsbank database that we are beta testing. It is called Access World News, and it can be found in our A to Z list of databases here:
http://www.iwu.edu/library/resources/AtoZ_dbaselist.shtml
Access World News provides full text access to a large number of local, Illinois, national and [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Jan 28th, 2009
Local public radio station WGLT ran a nice piece this morning remembering author John Updike, who died from cancer. The piece features comments from IWU English Professor James Plath, and recalls Updike’s 2002 visit to Illinois Wesleyan.
To listen to the story, go to:
http://www.wglt.org/newsroom/audio/090128updikeappreciation.mp3
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Jan 13th, 2009
Want to see photographs and pictures from presidential inaugurations of the past? You can view them in a Power Point slide show here .
And to learn even more about past presidential inaugurations, the Library of Congress has a great resource:
“I Do Solemly Swear…”:Presidential Inaugurations
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Jan 6th, 2009
The inauguration of President Obama will take place on Tuesday, January 20th, and the Ames Library will be hosting a viewing party in the Beckman Auditorium. The inaugural ceremony begins at 9AM central time, with the president’s swearing-in taking place shortly before 11AM central time.
In the meantime, here are a few valuable online resources to [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff, Students on Sep 16th, 2008
Does your group have something to share? Do you have a milestone to celebrate? A topic you’d like to raise awareness about?
The Ames Library Exhibit Team would like to invite any group on campus to contact us about utilizing display space in the library. Throughout the library, there are several exhibit spaces available to promote [...]
Posted in Students on May 19th, 2008
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