Librarians like to know how professionals find and use information and have extensively studied the information-seeking behaviors of a variety of professions, including those involved with the sciences. This paper examines ...

This paper is part of an ongoing project examining classification and control of knowledge from local populations. This paper explores the effects of language-diversity erosion on subject access, classification schema and ...

In the summer of 2008 Rosalie C.F. Rippey, Director of Communications and Marketing, and Stephanie Brunner Lynge, Associate Director of Church and Community Relations, contacted members of the UIUC Graduate School of Library ...

A community engagement project with two sides: helping to create an orientation packet for students studying abroad in Sao Tome, Africa, and a bibliography of materials related to Malaria research.

The New Horizons Media Initiative is a multi-sponsor initiative to establish a unique educational, research, communication and outreach resource for the UIUC campus, East-Central Illinois, other U of I campuses, and ...

A community engagement project with the WRFU radio station at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

As the global population ages, and as digital technologies become ever more densely woven into the fabric of everyday life, the localized social support older adults rely on to maintain digital literacy will increase in ...

The Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog brought a full service department store to more than 12 million homes in the United States by the middle of the twentieth century. More than one third of those households were ...