African American History Month offers a wonderful opportunity to reflect on cultural and artistic achievements of African Americans. They have been making films as long as the medium has existed but faced unique challenges. African American film grew out of a caricatured, othered presentation of black culture to mainstream audiences, and had to reclaim its… Read more »
Month: February 2021
Celebrating Students – The Journal of Student Research at IU East
The Journal of Student Research at IU East (JSRIUE) is an open-access, digital journal that is composed of student work. The Journal showcases everything from class research papers, literature reviews, creative work, digital presentations, and more! Why should I submit? Students who submit and are accepted for publication in the Journal of Student Research at… Read more »
Oxford Scholarship Online and the Prospective Print Pilot
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a database that offers access to thousands of academic works from Oxford University Press. Since the fall of 2016, The IU East Campus Library has had access to certain subject modules in Oxford Scholarship Online, including Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Social Work, Sociology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance,… Read more »
NewsLitCamp: Highlights 2021
The NewsLitCamp, hosted by the News Literacy Project, is an outreach program dedicated to providing educators with the latest tools and information that they need to equip their students in the fight against fake news. This year, 15 reporters and staff members from CNN joined in, offering exclusive insight into the back door of the… Read more »
New Digitized Collections and Archival Highlights
The Athletics Collection, The Joe Longstreth Radio Show, and the story of the Transgender Singing Voice Conference The IU East Campus Library has two very different, but incredibly interesting collections to highlights. One is new and one is rediscovered, and we also have a new oral history in the LGBTQ+ collection. All these audiovisual collections… Read more »