United Nations announces World Digital Library

On April 21st the United Nations announced the its online site for scholarly resources from around the globe. Called the “World Digital Library“, it has an easy-to-use interface that allows you to select geographic areas and/or time periods, then narrow your search by type of resource, general topic area, specific country, etc. [...]

NEA Study says literary reading on the rise

On its news site, the National Endowment for the Arts released results of a recent study about American adults literary reading habits:
“”At a time of immense cultural pessimism, the NEA is pleased to announce some important good news. Literary reading has risen in the U.S. for the first time in a quarter century,” said NEA [...]

Todd Rudat is Employee of the Month

On September 3rd, The Employee Recognition Committee announced that Archival Associate Todd Rudat was selected at Employee of the Month for August. Of course, we in the library were already aware of Todd’s great work, but it’s nice to see the university-wide recognition. Todd received a certificate from the President Doug Zemke, and [...]

Labor Day Weekend and Statistics from Last Year

It’s the Friday after classes began (on Tuesday), and it’s good to see so many students using the library already. We’re seeing students at the circulation desk checking out books from the stacks and reserves, students using the computers, and groups studying together.
We saw lots of students last year too! Here are [...]

The Semester Begins!

With the new semester upon us, here are a few new things you may want to know about:
New Faces
We have a new librarian on board! Denise Green joined the library faculty as of May 15th. She comes to us from University of Illinois at Springfield, with many years of great experience. She [...]

Are libraries about information or service?

I’ve just read an interesting article about “lifecycle librarianship” that discusses the purpose of libraries and librarianship. The accrediting organization for graduate library programs (the American Library Association) has, since the early 1990’s, sought to define the library field in terms of what it could be as an information provider, and it accomplished its [...]

Marsha Leach Named Employee of the Month

We’re thrilled that one of the library’s own, Marsha Leach, was named employee of the month for Millikin University.  Marsha’s great work and dedication were recognized in a brief ceremony this morning, March 7th, when President Doug Zemke presented Marsha with a certificate (see picture) and letter of commendation, and Human Resources brought goodie bags of [...]

Welcome to the Staley Library Blog!

Hello! I’m Cindy Fuller, the new director for Staley library, and I’m trying out this blog as the new form of newsletter for the library.   Why a blog?  Well, as I get a feel for posting, I think it will be a more timely form of communication, as well as an easy way to receive comments [...]