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Item Cover(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Intellectual Freedom Since 9/11: The USA Patriot Act, Etc. and Indiana Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Archer, J. DouglasWithin six weeks of the horrendous events of September 11, 2001, a mere blink of the eye in the usual legislative process, Congress passed and the President signed into law, Public Law 107-56, the “Uniting and Protecting America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act” also know as the “USA PATRIOT Act” or the “Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.” It received bi-partisan support and near unanimous approval in both the United States House and Senate. It is 132 pages long and amends approximately fifteen sections of the United States Code.Item Open Book: A Celebration of Words(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Gutschenritter, Victoria; Sigety, Lori CaskeyAn open book … words on a page … lyrics … poetry … drama …plays … novels … nonfiction … dialogue … movies. These are all different forms that words take on. In these various forms words affect our thoughts, imaginations, and our lives. Libraries are receptacles for words in whichever shapes the creators choose to use. The Saint Joseph County Public Library’s Open Book Festival reaches out to the Michiana community to celebrate words with a day of activities.Item Dolly B. Davis Hoover: Pioneer Black Librarian(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Muyumba, Valentine K.; Mehrens, Christopher E. (Christopher Emile)On November 26, 2000, friends and colleagues gathered at Saint Stephens Episcopal Church to honor the memory of Dolly B. Davis Hoover, the first African American faculty member at Indiana State University. The newspaper accounts of this occasion make note of her contribution to diversification and her role as a librarian at the university. As Charles Chillington eulogized “she opened ways that were not opened to most of us here.” These accounts, however, only offer a mere palimpsest of her remarkable career, a career which should be acknowledged in annals of Black Librarianship. The accomplishments of Dolly B. Davis Hoover are remarkable given the context of the time when she embarked upon the career of professional librarian in 1945.Item Indiana Libraries: It's Your Journal(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Table of Contents(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Indiana Libraries Guest Editor Guidelines(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana LibrariesItem Tilting at Evansville(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Atwater-Singer, MargaretLibrary instruction tutorials have become standard in delivering information literacy (IL) skills to patrons over the Internet. If you explore the library’s homepage at most universities, you will find a collection of tutorials teaching students a variety of skills, such as how to evaluate resources and how to access information from aggregate databases. Building a creative, interactive, entertaining and informational tutorial can be a time-consuming, resource-draining project. However, if your library is in the market for an information literacy tutorial and is not interested in reinventing the wheel, do what the University of Evansville Libraries (UEL) did – download TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial, http:// tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/).Item Myths About Libraries & Library Research(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Vornberger, DarlaWith all the technology pouring into libraries over the last ten years, bibliographic instruction has been virtually transformed into database instruction. We no longer teach students how to find books in the card catalog or use Humanities Index to find journal articles. Instead we show them how do keyword searches with Boolean operators in the OPAC, and we introduce them to general and specialized databases to find articles. So when I was asked to talk about the library to a first year study skills class in a classroom that had no computer access, I momentarily found myself at a loss. I certainly didn’t want to bore them with statistics, floor plans, and a detailed explanation of the Dewey Decimal System. Instead, I asked myself what kind of basic information might benefit students coming to the library to do research for the first time? And perhaps more importantly, what misinformation might be damaging their efforts and increasing their frustration? In answer to these questions, I came up with five myths about libraries and library services which can cause students to form attitudes and expectations that sabotage their library experiences.Item Indiana Libraries Instructions to Authors(H.W. Wilson Company, 2002) Indiana Libraries