Early Holiday Closing

The UI&U Library will be closed for the holiday weekend beginning today, August 31, at 2pm EST.  We hope you enjoy your Labor Day weekend, and look forward to speaking with you when we re-open at 9am EST on Tuesday, September 4.

Spotlight: Academic Search Premier

The Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO is one of the most well-known and respected research databases.  It is a large, multidisciplinary database containing 4,600+ journals in the fields of psychology, education, leadership, business, arts, sciences, and more. 

The UI&U Library lists Academic Search Premier as one of our six recommended databases for beginning your research--and with good reason, as a search in this database will find articles on almost any topic.  The database also offers numerous ways to refine your search, such as limiting results by date, peer-reviewed status, document type and more.  The database toolbar includes options to print, e-mail, view citation, and create a direct link.   

To access the Academic Search Premier database, 1) go to the UI&U Library homepage, 2) click the “Articles & Databases” tab, 3) click the “databases by subject” link, and 4) open the Academic Search Premier database.

Latest E-Book Purchases

The UI&U Library collection has expanded yet again, with many of our newest titles centering on social justice and the social sciences:

• A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
• After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965
• Africare: Black American Philanthrophy in Africa
• Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
• Ascent of Man: A Philosophy of Human Nature
• Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
• Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
• Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution
• Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India
• Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World
• Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
• Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research
• Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice
• Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory
• Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776-1787
• French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean
• Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
• Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Histories of Scientific Observation
• Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
• Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
• Leadership and Global Justice
• Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
• Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism
• One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention
• Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice
• Queer Questions, Clear Answers: The Contemporary Debates on Sexual Orientation
• Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960
• Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys and the Men They Become
• So Much, So Fast, So Little Time: Coming to Terms with Rapid Change and Its Consequences
• Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

Upcoming Workshops: August

Whether you're looking for a basic introduction to the UI&U Library or just a chance to brush up on your research skills, our August workshops have something for you.  Registration is now open.


Tuesday, August 14: Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10 pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

Tuesday, August 14: Library Orientation, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 21: Basic Research Skills, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 28: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

New E-Books: Contemporary Art and More

Our ever-evolving collection has expanded yet again, and we're happy to announce our most recent round of acquisitions.  Contemporary art, postmodernism, and psychological assessment are just a few of the topics our new titles cover in depth:

• Age of the Avant-Garde, 1956-1972
• Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
• The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art
• Communities of Sense
• EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
• From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual
• Klee
• Paul Klee and His Illness
• Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature
• Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader
• Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art
• Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art
• Contemporary Intellectual Assessment: Theories, Tests, and Issues (3rd Edition)
• Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice (6th Edition)
• Handbook of Psychological Assessment (5th Edition)
• SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology