Welcome to the IU Southeast Library newsletter!
Featuring the latest Library news, featured articles, research help info, and much more!
Upcoming Events:
Moonlight Breakfast is Back!
The annual Moonlight Breakfast will be held December 7th from 9:00 - 10:00 pm on the third floor of the Library. Breakfast will be served by Chris Cakes, while supplies last. As always, this event is free and open to all! Brought to you by the Library, Residence Life and Housing, Campus Activities Board, Writing Center, Common Experience, and Campus Life.
Open Mic Night @ Moonlight Breakfast
There will be an Open Mic Night during the Moonlight Breakfast. As part of the Tell Your Story series sponsored by the Common Experience Committee, join us during Moonlight Breakfast to share your story!
The Library is pleased to announce the addition of Mitchell Scott to our crew! Mitchell is the new Coordinator of Collections & Online Resources, filling the role vacated by Kate Moore as she became our new Director. Mitchell was previously the Collection Management Librarian at St. Norbert College in Green Bay. If you see Mitchell around, be sure to welcome him to IU Southeast!
To learn more about Mitchell, tune into this month's "Stories of IUS" where we learn about Mitchell's thoughts on eResources, the new skill he learned last summer, and more!
A Message from the Archives
If you're anything like us, you might enjoy taking a dive into the archives from time to time. And what better time than the end of the year to see what the past might have to tell us?
This December, as we are all heading into another pandemic holiday season, our hopes and ideas for a new year might feel...a little less sparkly. Here on campus many of us are wondering what the new year holds for IU Southeast. To reflect on the future, let's take a look at the past. An article in the December 15, 1971 edition of The Horizon might just offer a little bit of hope.
The 1970s was a period of huge change for IU Southeast. During plans and progress for the campus' move from Warder Park to its current Grant Line Road location, an anonymous letter was published in December 1971 that questioned the future of campus - but it also reminded us of our capacity to shape that future. In it, the author writes:
"Let every interested part of our community state with some precision its vision of what it wants IUS realistically to become. Let us then reconcile as best we can the conflicting aspects of these hopes, form a plan for now and tomorrow, and invite support for our aims. Only by setting reasonable, fairly specific high goals for ourselves will we define the essence of IUS."
This 1971 article doesn't just serve as a snapshot in time. Perhaps this article also serves as a bit of inspiration for the challenges facing us today. At the very least, maybe it offers some solace in knowing that difficult times don't last forever.
You can read the entire article below:
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Intersession 2021 Hours (December 15 - January 9)
Monday - Friday: 8 am - 5 pm
Saturday - Sunday: CLOSED
The Library will be CLOSED Friday, December 24 - Sunday, January 2
The Library was one of the first three buildings built in the 1970s when IUS moved from Warder Park to where it is now. It wasn't the three-story building you see today, though. Instead, the Library was originally part of University Center.