TAL News and Events
Posted in Ames Highlights, Faculty/Staff on Nov 5th, 2009
The Ames Library sponsors an annual Archives Exploration and Research Award designed to increase faculty awareness of archives and special collections material available on campus; the award is also a means for encouraging integration of this material into faculty members’ coursework and research.
Applications are accepted on the deadline dates for any of the three review [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights on Oct 28th, 2009
The latest edition of the APA Style Manual has a large number of errors. The library is working on getting replacement copies from the second printing. Until then, a list of corrections can be found online at on the APA Style website. The APA Style Blog is also a helpful source of information about the new [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights on Oct 14th, 2009
If you missed Mike Weis’s September 29 presentation on John Adams and the Origins of American Diplomacy in The Ames Library, now is your chance to catch it online! ISU’s Milner Library recorded it and provided this link to their streaming server.
The September 29 event was IWU’s contribution to a panel exhibit currently on display at Milner [...]
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 on Sep 15th, 2009
The Ames Library is pleased to announce that author Louise Erdrich has been selected for the 8th Annual Ames/Milner Visiting Author Program.
Ms. Erdrich will be on campus the evening of Thursday, October 22nd 2009.
3:00 – 4:00 Presentation and Q and A, Milner Library, Illinois State University
7:30 – 8:30 Presentation, Presser Hall, Illinois Wesleyan [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights on Sep 3rd, 2009
Does your group have something to share? 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 student work, class projects, [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights on Jun 25th, 2009
This year’s Summer Reading Program selection, Three Cups of Tea, tells the story of Greg Mortenson and his amazing work bringing schools to remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Check out the library’s resource guide to learn more about Mortenson, the Central Asia Institute, and how you can help.
Posted in Ames Highlights on May 21st, 2009
The Ames Library is happy to announce enhanced online access to Science and Nature is now available directly from the publishers’ web sites!
Science is now available online from 1997 to the most recently published issue. Older issues (1880-1996) are available through JSTOR (an online journal archive).
Nature is now available online from 2005 to the most [...]
Posted in Ames Highlights on Apr 28th, 2009
(from the IWU News Blog)
Laura Murray, a senior Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) art major, has been chosen to receive the fourteenth annual Ames Library Art Purchase Award.
Murray’s winning artwork, titled “Design & Music,” is a graphic design poster. Her other pieces in the Senior BA/BFA Art Show included a branding identity, a package design, [...]
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