How do people use mobile devices for information seeking, and how can we best design library and information services for those who do so? How can we transform spaces and services to address the changing needs of library users? These themes are just two running through new publications by library faculty and academic professionals at the University of Illinois Library. Summer proved a productive season for new research, and in the list below you can get a hint of library contributions to these areas and others spread across diverse topics, from virtual poetry to invasive plant species to library and information science education.
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Cindy Ingold, Gender Studies and Multicultural Services Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Library, has published a document project on the history of women in librarianship with Alexander Street Press. The curated collection – How Did Women’s Groups in the American Library Association Promote Activism around Women’s Issues in Librarianship during the 1970s? – presents and synthesizes primary sources that highlight feminist action within the American Library Association (ALA) and its ties to the broader movement around women’s rights in the second half of the twentieth century.
Antonio Sotomayor, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University Library, has published his book