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New to Interlibrary Loan?

In addition to the many resources available from the UI&U Library, current students, faculty, and staff can request articles and book chapters using the library’s free Interlibrary Loan Service, ILLiad. With OneSearch, placing a request is easy. Just select “Request through interlibrary loan,” and OneSearch will fill in the citation information for you. Verify that the information is correct, and click Submit Request. If the library is able to borrow the article or book chapter, it will be delivered electronically to your email, usually within one week.

Note: The first time you use interlibrary loan, you will need to create an ILLiad account:

• From the Library Website, select the Interlibrary Loan Tab.
• Select “Create an Account or Place a Request.”
• You will be directed to login using your Union ID# and password.
• Next, enter your contact information, and select “Submit Information.”

Now, you are ready to begin using Interlibrary services! From this page, you can view outstanding requests, submit requests, and update your contact information, if needed. Need additional assistance? Check out the library’s Interlibrary Loan FAQs or Contact a Librarian.

Celebrating National Breastfeeding Month

August is National Breastfeeding Month. Did you know that you can access many videos on breastfeeding promotion and general maternal health & wellness from the library? This month’s featured video, “Breastfeeding Overview,” is part of the Newborn Care Series, and is available from Films on Demand. In this video, viewers will “learn some of the benefits of breastfeeding your newborn, how to properly hold him or her, and attach her to your breast” (publisher’s description).

Each video in this series is around 5 minutes long, and covers topics on newborn care such as safely installing a car seat, developing a healthy sleep schedule, and addressing common health concerns.

The UI&U Films on Demand collection includes over 52,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses.

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Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ●  child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video) ● social work ● special education

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15–October 15. This month’s featured videos, available from Films On Demand through UI&U Library, celebrate Hispanic culture, contributions, and history.

Habla y Vota

Habla y Vota is the fourteenth installment of HBO Latino’s award-winning Habla series, which comprises over 200 testimonials from U.S. Latinos – including celebrities, recognized professionals, and everyday Latinos – who’ve shared their funny, poignant, and honest stories about being Latino in the U.S. Featuring leading Latino celebrities and inspiring personalities and in order to raise the voice of the Hispanic community during the 2016 elections, Habla y Vota will be part of a bigger effort to reach Latinos and encourage voting in November. This one-hour non-partisan documentary special, in both English and Spanish, will feature Latino storytellers sharing their personal experiences directly to the camera for a national audience. -Films on Demand

Inner Borderlines: Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales

In April 2013, Spanish film maker Luis Mancha went to the University of California, Irvine to interview Alejandro Morales, an under-read Chicano author whose works present a vision of Southern California and America so different from the image that the United States projects abroad that Mancha felt compelled to make this documentary film. In it we follow Morales’ journey around Southern California as he tries to understand issues concerning the Latino population in California and the U.S. He and other Chicano/Latino academic experts discuss the first immigrants to California; how California was taken over by Anglo-Americans; how the city of Irvine came to be and its juxtaposition to Santa Ana; Barrios and “white flight;” Chicano literature; institutionalized racism and university barriers to ethnic studies programs; gang violence and the incarceration system; and future relations between the U.S. and Mexico. Also featuring Leo Chavez, María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí, Belinda Campos, Raúl Fernandez, Mario García, Ellen McCracken, and Eleanor Guzman. -Films on Demand

Habla Texas Series

An entrepreneur. A mayor. A mariachi. These are just a few of the remarkable Latinos who share their personal stories in Habla Texas. Filmed entirely in San Antonio and Austin, this one-hour, two-part special is an enlightening an entertaining look at the ups and downs, highs and lows of being Latino in the Great State of Texas. An HBO Production. -Films on Demand

Latino American Series

This is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. The series chronicles Latinos in the United States from the 1500’s to present day. It is a story of people, politics, and culture, intersecting with much that is central to the history of the United States while also going to places where standard U.S. histories do not tend to tread. Latino Americans relies on historical accounts and personal experiences to vividly tell the stories of early settlement, conquest and immigration; of tradition and reinvention; and of anguish and celebration, from the millions of people who come to the U.S. from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, and countries in Central and South America. The programs are driven by the human dramas of individuals’ struggles and triumphs, successes and disappointments, featuring interviews with close to 100 Latinos from the worlds of politics, business, military, academia, literature, and pop culture, as well as deeply personal portraits of Latinos who lived through key chapters in American history. LATINO AMERICANS is the story of the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions of people today. -Public Broadcasting Series.

Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ●  child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● early childhood ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● social work ● special education

Keep the Memory Alive with Eyes on the Prize

Keep the Memory Alive!  

Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America.

Through contemporary interviews and historic footage, the 14-part Eyes on the Prize series traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act, and from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. –American Experience, PBS.org

Delsarte, Louis. (2010). Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Mural [Mural]. City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta. Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/c7Fe8m Creative Commons BY-NC-ND.  Image Cropped.

• Awakenings (1954–1956): Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
• Fighting Back (1957–1962): States’ rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, and again in James Meredith’s 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts — and integration is carried out.
• Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961: Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. “Freedom Riders” also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
• No Easy Walk 1961–1963: The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under King’s leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
• Mississippi—Is This America? (1963–1964): Mississippi’s grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
• Bridge to Freedom (1965): A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.
• The Time Has Come (1964–1966): After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from “Freedom Now!” to “Black Power!” as the fabric of the traditional movement changes.
• Two Societies (1965–1968): Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago’s civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago’s powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising that lasts five days, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming “two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.” President Lyndon Johnson, who appointed the commission, ignores the report.
• Power! 1967–1968: The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but then lead them to a showdown with New York City’s teachers’ union.
• Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964–1972): A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali, a minister of Islam who refuses to fight in Vietnam. Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., fight to bring the growing black consciousness movement and their African heritage inside the walls of this prominent black institution. Black elected officials and community activists organize the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, in an attempt to create a unified black response to growing repression against the movement.
• The Promised Land (1967–1968): Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People’s Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King’s death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.
• A Nation of Law? (1968-1971): Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon’s call to “law and order,” stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York’s Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public’s attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.
• The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980): In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.
• Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s): Power and powerlessness. Miami’s black community — pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment — explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city’s Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago’s first black mayor.

Nurturing Leadership Video

The Films on Demand collection includes over 44,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is Nurturing Leadership.

Nurturing Leadership

Are leaders born, or made? This video shows that while certain personality traits may influence leadership abilities, there are also leadership qualities that can be learned and nurtured. Business leaders, politicians, coaches and others share their perceptions of what it takes to be a leader, relating to viewers that observing certain principles and adopting admirable behaviors can help develop leadership attributes. Integrity, honesty, dependability and the belief in an organization’s core values are showcased, along with the elements necessary to create a culture of excellence. A basic definition of leadership as the action of leading a group of people toward a common goal is the preface to the importance of creating a vision of the future—the true mark of a leader. Listening, teamwork, motivation and the ability to engage others in a cause are also presented as leadership qualities. Many modern-day or historical capsules of leadership bring to life the concept of developing the traits to become a leader. -publisher’s description

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Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ●  child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video) ● social work ● special education

DOAJ: Free Articles for Life

The development of open-access journals has been one of the most exciting developments in academic scholarship during the last two decades.  Open-access journals are free publications that are available to everyone without hindrance of subscription fees, logins, contracts, or other barriers.  They provide universal access to research and knowledge.

Access to this journal content has been facilitated by the development of open access databases, most notably the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).  Maintained by the Infrastructure Services for Open Access, the database provides access to over 2 million journal articles from countries throughout the world.  This is a multidisciplinary database with coverage in the arts, biology, business, environmental sciences, medicine, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the social sciences.  All journals are also peer-review or have editorial quality control, making DOAJ an excellent resource high quality, current research.

The Directory of Open Access Journals can be accessed from the databases link on the library homepage.

At First Sight: The Shirl Jennings Story

“Sight is an amazing gift, and one which most of us learn from infancy, starting after birth when our eyes learn to focus. Through infancy, toddler years, and on into school years, our brains are trained to remember objects by how they look. The blind cannot do this. They use tactile sensations to identify and relate to everything.

When Shirl’s sight was restored, the visual overload was almost devastating. He had no idea what he was looking at and the task of learning it all was emotionally and mentally challenging, as well as a huge physical burden.

Barbara Jennings, Shirl’s wife, was determined that he could adjust to a life with sight and navigated unchartered waters to teach him everything – colors, alphabet, numerals, household objects, types of buildings and structural materials, trees and shurbs, animals, roads, railroads, airplanes, bridges, tunnels…the list was endless. There was always more for Shirl to learn.”- from atfirstsighthebook.com

Shirl Jennings creating art, courtesy of Barbara Jennings

Sun and Rays by Shirl Jennings, courtesy of atfirstsighthebook.com

Immigration? Gun Control? Read both sides.

U.S. opinion is highly polarized on a number of different political and social issues.  These opinions are often based on a person’s individual biases without having been researched thoroughly, or many factors having been taken into consideration.  Critical thinking and civil political discourse, however, demand that we actively explore and consider alternative perspectives.

Whether you are researching a topic out of personal interest, or required to include an opposing perspective in an academic paper, the UI&U Library’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context database can help you find the information necessary to provide a sound basis for the perspective that you are investigating.  The database includes topic pages on a variety of issues such as gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, nuclear energy, immigration, and more.  Each topic page includes opposing viewpoints, reference materials, historical background information, journal articles, and statistics that you can use to begin your research.

Protest Against “Race Mixing”  and U.S. Marshals Escort Bridges

The Opposing Viewpoints database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s all databases page (go to: library homepage > databases link > scroll to the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database).