Fellow Andrew Keener searched through annotated dictionaries, language manuals, plays from Renaissance England to learn about multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England.
Vandal Giving Day 2018 continues until 7:29 PM (PST) today! Did you know that the library was voted the Best Study Spot on the University of Idaho Moscow campus? With the MILL, Vandal Drop-In Tutoring, workshops, the CDIL, and an Audio/Visual Lab, it has a little bit of everything to serve any students needs. Your gift helps with the continued support of student success at U of I.
It’s Vandal Giving Day today! In honor of our building’s 60th anniversary, our goal for the Library this year is to have 60 donorsto the Library. If we reach this goal, we will unlock $1000 in additional money for the Library from the Library Advisory Board. A gift of even a few dollars will count toward our goal of 60 donors, so please consider giving to support our Library programs
What is Interlibrary Loan and Why You Should Use It
Inter-library loan (or commonly referred to as ILL) is a system of borrowing and lending in most public and academic libraries. Basically, if there is a book you want that your home library doesn’t have, they will borrow it from the nearest library and loan it out to you
Using interlibrary loan gets you stuff your library doesn’t have! Want an academic text , but it’s way too expensive? A college will send it to you! There’s a novel your library doesn’t have that you want to read? Get a copy by filling out a ILL form!
Need a college textbook? You guessed it!
It’s typically a free service in all public and college libraries
Some libraries have book scanners/copiers. No one will stop you from scanning sections of that textbook/journal/ article
You can also request scans of book chapters/articles
It keeps people (like me) with a job
You literally have access to almost any book /text/ movie in the world
The mail usually comes in quick, like 3-7 days
Interlibrary loan use has gone down since the pandemic, and if you want this awesome service to continue to exist, please use it!
Don’t feel bad that you’re making your library spend $ on getting material for you. Libraries budget for ILL stuff, and using it will only increase that budget!
Interlibrary loan is an amazing resource that not many use/know about. Your library will be ecstatic about you using it and it’s a good indicator for what libraries decide to purchase too!
When a librarian reschedules a session with a patron due to snow, but one lives in a winter wonderland with no fear and one lives in a city where two inches of powder means all the snow plows are OUTon the residential streets, and guess which one the librarian is.
When a librarian sees that favorite faculty member #1, who not only expects librarians to fill out a card and then walk away while hepromisesto make only 30 copies on a library machine when he has access to his departmental copier, has also managed to worm himself into a library carrel, with no locking door, exposed to the public, for him to fill with books which can neither be re-shelved or touched by other patrons, because he doesn’t want to lug things back to his office three buildings away.
When a librarian looks around, realizes everyone is either at lunch or has forgotten themselves in the standard meeting that ends in one half hour, and sees that the 12:30 classes are letting out of the academic building across the way.
When a librarian is unable to convince a professor in the library’s classroom that turning up the volume on the television beyond 30 is very detrimental to everyone in the quiet study area outside the classroom.
