Welcome to our iSchool Help Desk monthly newsletter!! We use this to share updates about what we’ve been up to. Whether you’re a current student, faculty, or staff; or maybe even an alumni or friend of the iSchool Help Desk and want to keep in-the-know about us, we’re glad to have you! You can expect updates about the major initiatives and projects we are working on, pictures and updates from our fun social events, and anything else up and coming at the iSchool Help Desk!
Accessibility Advocate Shoutouts
We have been helping support the iSchool as they work towards more accessible class materials to meet changing federal standards. We would like to celebrate those who have been stepping up to become Accessibility Advocates at the iSchool – whether they have been educating others about accessibility for years, or they’ve recently made the commitment to jump in and try their best, we think it’s important to recognize the effort and amazing impact that we can make as an iSchool community if we all do our part!
In March, we began spotlighting some of these advocates on a monthly basis. This is a great chance to recognize and uplift these efforts, to encourage one another as a community to keep striving, and to help students get to know our instructors a little better! Please check out our shoutout from May, professor Melissa Wong! Feel free to email us at ischool-support@illinois.edu to nominate any instructors and let us know their impact!

Exciting Life Updates
We are excited to announce that our newly-graduated GA Wanheng has accepted a job as the Asian Studies Librarian at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is excited to work just a couple of doors down from our other former help-desker Audrey. We know she will be an amazing addition to their team!
Our other recently-graduated GA Delia, who is still around at the Help Desk for part of the summer, has recently finished a wonderful project for the city of Bloomington. Working with the group Strong Towns Blono, Delia was chosen to create murals that lead from the Bloomington Public Library to the McLean County Museum of History. Here are a few photos of the beautiful murals she created, honoring the circus history of Bloomington while aiding pedestrians with wayfinding. We are so proud of her and this project! Check out a news spotlight about the mural project.

Graduation & Farewells
We are very proud of our five Help Desk GAs who have graduated this May and are moving on to the next big step in their lives! We are so sad to let them go, but we know they are all going to do amazing things. You can check out our blog and Facebook to see some farewell posts for each of them.
We are also very proud of two of our graduated GA’s who received special iSchool student awards at graduation. Delia received the Herbert Goldhor Award for Public Librarianship and Audrey received the Downs Faculty Special Award of Merit. We are so glad that their wonderful leadership, creativity, and contributions to the iSchool community have been recognized!

iSchool Resource Zine
Our wonderful, recently graduated Help Desker Delia has been working very hard this past year to create a beautiful new resource for the iSchool community, and we are so excited to announce that these zines are now available at the Help Desk! Check out our new iSchool Resource Guide zines, which you can currently find on our community shelf near the Help Desk at 614 E Daniel. Including beautiful, one-of-a-kind illustrations, this zine is a great guide to the iSchool as well as other important campus and off-campus resources for students. Feel free to take one, share them, and/or bring your own zines for the zine shelf!


Upcoming…
Thank you so much for reading our newsletter, and for all of your support! We are excited to be able to keep everyone updated on the fun things happening at the Help Desk and in our community. Keep an eye out for next month’s newsletter!
