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Spring 2016 Vol. 1. No. 1

Newsletter of David L. Rice Library

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Director’s Message Rice Library by the Numbers Meet Our Staff Discovery in the Library

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Database Spotlight - ICPSR Federal Depository Library Program Library Seeks

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University Archives Teams with USI Athletics Taking a Closer Look at Rice Library’s Research Guides

A Simple “Thank You” from Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Cody Benke

A thank-you letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a simple paragraph. Rather, King puts his heart and soul into expressing how grateful he is for whatever someone did to deserve the note of thanks.

One such letter was unexpectedly discovered in 2015, mixed in with other papers in a communal studies collection in the University Archives and Special Collections. Dr. King says: “Without your moral support we would be caught in a dungeon of despair without knowing that many people all over the nation are supporting us in our struggle. By aiding us in this significant way, you are telling the world that the rights of Negroes cannot be trampled in any community without impairing the rights of every other American.”

This was the some of the wording found in the letter sent to Irving Wolfe from Dr. King in July 1963. Wolfe was the president of Skyview Acres Co-operative, which▪▪was▪▪an integrated residential community in New York State.

The communal group was founded just after the end of World War II. This cooperative held a block party to raise funds for the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference (SCLC); Dr. King was SCLC president at that time. Wolfe’s letter to King accompanying the donation detailed the▪▪fundraiser, noting that over 400 men, women and children from across the country had turned up to help at the event; he enclosed a check for $567.56 with the letter.

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RICE LIBRARY

BY THE NUMBERS 2014 - 2015 Architecture 4 floors $28,000,000 building 1 coffee shop 3 reading rooms 30 group study rooms 12 individual study rooms

Technology 80 laptops 60 iPads 40 Galaxy tablets 9 charging stations 2 media hubs 20 security cameras 200 public-use computers

Services 114 open hours per week 12,307 average visitors weekly 720,000 website visits weekly 7,800 interlibrary loan requests

Collections 100,000 items in digital collections 257,000 books 206,000 e-books 66,500 full-text e-journals 2,500 DVDs 1,750 music CDs 27,500 government documents 107 databases

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Since beginning my duties as the Director of the David L. Rice Library in October 2012, I have learned a great deal about the library, USI and the community of Evansville. The work of a university library never stops, so I often learn by doing! The librarians and staff members at Rice Library are an awe-inspiring group – we are small but mighty. As a team, we have increased outreach offerings to our users, and also have added technology and made improvements to the library building itself.

Through its active Publicity, Outreach, and Marketing Committee, the library offers many events and programs. Our most popular event is Paws ‘N Play, which brings certified therapy dogs to campus just before final exams each semester. In December 2015, nearly 500 students visited the Paws ‘N Play event, which is cosponsored with the Recreation, Fitness, and Wellness Center and the Counseling Center. Other popular events are Game Night, Speed Dating with Literature and Lemonade @ the Library for Welcome Week in August. These activities draw students to the library and help to make library staff members more approachable for students.

As we know, technology is ever-changing, and the David L. Rice Library boasts a wide variety of technology. In August 2015, the library launched a new research tool – fUSIon – which returns results from the library’s catalog, online databases and digital collections in one easy search. For more on this amazing software, see page 4. In 2014, the library installed a new security system for the library, including new self-checkout kiosks, new security tags for each item in the collection, new security gates and upgraded security cameras. The library also offers nearly 200 desktop computers; 60 iPads and 40 Galaxy tablets for student checkout; 2 media hubs for completing group projects on a large, shared screen; 80 laptops for inlibrary use; and personal device charging stations on every floor of the building.

The library building will celebrate its tenth birthday this year, and some updates have been made. Since 2013, we have rearranged the north end of the first floor of the library, creating more space for comfortable seating and our expanded popular reading collection; relocated the Children’s Collection to the first floor, making it more accessible to the library’s youngest visitors; added 12 individual study rooms on the fourth floor; and added numerous pieces of artwork to the building, including paintings, prints, drawings and quilts from USI’s large art collection. I hope these changes result in a more usable and comfortable space for our users.

The library’s staff continues to learn and grow together, as we work to improve the library for our users. Please stop by and visit us, and feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may have about the David L. Rice Library.

Marna Hostetler, Director David L. Rice Library Marna.Hostetler@usi.edu 812-464-1824

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Katie Loehrlein, Instruction and Outreach Librarian Tell us about your educational background and work history in libraries.

I began work with the David L. Rice Library in 2010 as a library assistant in Acquisitions.

While working, I earned my Master of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University, and was subsequently hired in 2015 as librarian in Instruction and Outreach. My background is in Secondary Education and English Literature, and I’ve always enjoyed the research process and helping others.

What are some of the responsibilities you have as a librarian with David L. Rice Library?

As one of the primary instruction librarians, I help students to gain valuable information literacy skills and learn more about what the library has to offer them. As a reference librarian, I help researchers find information and resources through the library’s databases and work with professors on special research projects. I heavily promote our varied instruction offerings to different campus departments, and work to advance the library’s outreach efforts to undergraduates, graduates, professors and the community. This includes chairing the library’s Publicity, Outreach, and Marketing Committee. I organize and host a board game event at the library, which helps students with communication and networking skills and provides them an opportunity to make new friends. Another event to draw in students is the National Library Week Essay Contest. I lead workshops such as one for 2016’s Student Success Week showing participants how to explore information like a professional by using fUSIon. What do you like about being a librarian? What are your hobbies outside of work?

What I enjoy most is helping library patrons with their reference questions. Students may feel apprehension

when asking for help, but I know that asking for help with research or any issue is not a sign of weakness; rather, it shows strength and builds connections with others. In 2013, I began teaching yoga to a small group of employees at USI and currently I teach at a local yoga studio. I also very much enjoy being in nature.

James Wethington, Library Assistant in Archives What experience do you have working in libraries?

I’m a 2014 USI graduate with a B.S. in History, a minor in Political Science, and a wide array of experience working in public and academic libraries. My journey began at Checkout in Rice Library as a student worker, and I also had an internship in University Archives and Special Collections through the USI History Department.

After graduation, I became a Checkout call-in at the library and worked as a customer service representative at EVPL’s Oaklyn Branch from January to August 2015.

What is your current position with Rice Library?

I was hired as a full-time library assistant in Archives in August 2015. My current projects include making a major inventory of the more than 100 University Archives collections. Archives Librarian Jennifer Greene and I also plan to shift the University Archives collections to gain more space and ensure they are in good order. I maintain the library blog, #amUSIngArtifacts, which highlights our various collections; furthermore, I collaborate with the library’s social media intern to promote various collections through Facebook and Twitter with our hashtag, #amUSIngArtifacts.

What are your goals in the library field?

I’ve been accepted at IUPUI to begin my MLS (Master of Library Science) program during summer 2016, planning to specialize in academic archival librarianship. While working at USI, I want to help Archives maintain its col-

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Discovery in the Library

by Ashley Blinstrub and Joanne Artz

Recent visitors to the Rice Library homepage may semester, reference librarians offered several workshops have noticed its new look, streamlined for a major just for faculty, to introduce them to searching tips and change. In an effort to meet users’ needs, the library techniques. During one of these sessions, several faculty implemented new technology that offers exciting members commented that they found articles relevant efficiency and comprehensiveness to their research in databases in searching for information. they had never thought to Library staff are proud to search before. That’s the beauty announce fUSIon, the new of discovery: by searching all the The librarian smiled and discovery layer enabling users to resources at once, you get more search for their topics across said, “let me introduce you results in less time, and don’t reference material, print and miss out on truly useful items electronic books, journal and you may not have thought to to fUSIon!” newspaper articles, videos, sound look for. recordings, digital images, and Like most information more - all in one search box! technology, fUSIon changes and Searching with a library’s grows; a committee of librarians and staff members discovery layer can be compared to doing a Google constantly evaluates and works to fix issues that arise search, but the majority of results are resources offered with it. fUSIon’s streamlined searching process allows by the library. librarians to spend time teaching students higher level Since fUSIon searches across the library catalog, skills at the reference desk and in library instruction databases and digital archives, it’s a great way to get classes. started with research and discover sources you may not You don’t have to be a student or faculty member or know the library provides! An English 201 student who even on campus to take advantage of this great new attended a library instruction class said that the addition tool; fUSIon is available 24/7 using any browser. When of the fUSIon tool turned him into a library user because off campus, faculty and currently-enrolled students can “now I know where to start my research and the process open online full text items found by entering their isn’t as complicated as it used to be.” Students really like MyUSI logins when prompted. Community users can the new discovery layer for the ease it brings to their search from anywhere, but must visit the library to take research process. And it isn’t just college students who advantage of full-text resources found with fUSIon. If pick up quickly on fUSIon’s features. When a reference you have any questions or would like assistance with librarian recently showed a high school student from the trying the library’s powerful new search tool, contact the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation’s Signature Reference Desk at 812-464-1907 or libref@usi.edu.

School the lengthy list of different databases that would contain research articles on his topic, he asked if there were a way to search all of them together.

The librarian smiled and said “let me introduce you to fUSIon!” Faculty also have commented on the advantages of utilizing fUSIon. Over the fall 2015 4

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research In late fall 2015 USI joined with have potential for those conducting There are data-driven learning over 760 other members of the Inter secondary research to support guides, sequenced exercise -university Consortium for Political primary findings or generate new modules, and a crosstab assignment and Social Research (ICPSR) working findings, those who study or teach builder allowing faculty to select together to acquire statistical subsets of variables for students to and preserve social methods in use in creating cross tabulation USI researchers are encouraged science data, to quantitative tables. For students, there is to deposit their study data with provide open and analysis, assistance with effective data ICPSR; data used for secondary equitable access to and those management and citation, an annual analysis is published more these data, and to developing research paper competition, and a widely than data not shared. promote effective funding summer internship program data use. So that proposals providing undergraduate students data resources are available to requiring a data management plan. with a unique and expansive future generations of scholars, ICPSR USI researchers are encouraged to experience that introduces all curates and preserves data, deposit their study data with ICPSR; aspects of social science research. migrating them to new storage data used for secondary analysis is The ICPSR Summer Program for media and file formats as changes in published more widely than data students is a world-renowned technology warrant. Rice Library is not shared. Sharing data extends the program providing training in proud to host the ICPSR database, research productivity of the primary methodologies and techniques for which can be accessed on the A-Z investigator. research across the social, listing of all library databases. USI The ICPSR website includes tools behavioral and medical sciences. faculty, staff and students have full for undergraduate instructors to set If you have questions about this access to the data archive and to all up data-driven learning experiences. exciting new resource, or would like ICPSR services. Off-campus users will The materials can be used as the to consult with a reference librarian, be asked for their MyUSI login basis for assignments, as an in-class contact the Reference Desk at before being able to search. or study exercise or for lecture 812-464-1907, or libref@usi.edu.

In addition to archiving content; all resources are provided collections from disciplines such as under a Creative Commons License. sociology, political science, history and economics, ICPSR has special emphases in gerontology, substance abuse and mental health, criminal Each fall and spring semester, Rice Library, the justice, child care, health and Recreation, Fitness and Wellness Center and medical care, education and the Counseling Center co-host a three-day event demography. While holdings include with certified therapy dogs, giving students a some time series and other types of chance to stop by for stress relief prior to aggregate data, the collection studying for finals. consists mainly of raw derived from surveys, censuses or administrative records. The data

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Federal Depository Library Program @ Rice Library

by Mona Meyer

The Gettysburg Address

Lincoln’s handwritten draft

Rice Library is observing its 47th year as a federal depository library. The United States government is the world’s largest publisher (via the Government Printing Office, or GPO), and these materials are provided to the public via the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Appointed by our congressman, Rep. Roger Zion, on February 11, 1969, Rice Library is one of two such libraries in the Indiana 8th Congressional district.

The other is Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library’s Central Library; both libraries are selective depositories, meaning that each receives only a portion of available documents. When first established with the FDLP, USI (then Indiana State University Evansville) librarians carefully evaluated the programs offered by the University and selected categories of documents to receive which were best suited to support those programs. As the University has grown and changed, so has the library’s selection profile—adding new categories to African American Art

Oversize Collection N6538.N5 S595 2012

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support new programs and deleting those no longer needed. And GPO itself has changed over time, too. At one time, all documents were published in paper or microform. Next there was a migration to electronic formats such as floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, etc. Most recently the emphasis has been on disseminating documents in a non-tangible Freedom by the Sword : The format (i.e., online). While U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 online materials can be General Collection E492.9 .D63 2011 received more quickly and updated in a more timely fashion, they do present new challenges. Nearly all tangible documents can be located via our online catalog or discovered with a fUSIon search. Records for more and more documents “born digital” (i.e., online only) are being added to the catalog so that they can be located and utilized. To help our users understand more about the scope of the collection and how it can be utilized for scholarly as well as personal interest, the librarians created an online Government Documents Research Guide. Lest you think that government documents are only materials such as Economic Report of the President (the library has print copies for 1970-2015 in the Reference Collection HC106.5 .A272) or Budget of the United States Government (2011-2016 in Reference HJ2051 .A59, with links to online access for 1963-1986 and 1996-current)— both important titles, but not very colorful or scintillating—there are many government document titles that may surprise, intrigue and inspire you to learn more about these valuable resources. Let the titles shown in the graphics pique your curiosity!

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Academic library budgets are strained by everincreasing costs of electronic resources, sometimes leaving behind more traditional reference titles that would serve the needs of a wide range of students and faculty.

The Library Seeks… is a new effort to secure private funding for specific items that could not otherwise be purchased by the library. These would be one-time gifts. If you have any questions about the titles listed, please contact the library’s collection development librarian Martha Niemeier, 812-464-1834, martha.niemeier@usi.edu.

If you decide to underwrite any of the titles described, please send your gift to the USI Foundation, 8600 University Blvd., Evansville IN 47712, with a notation that it is for (title of book). A bookplate noting the donor’s name and generosity will be placed in the book(s) being underwritten.

$350 for The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law, edited by William Babcock and William Freivogel.

This two-volume work surveys varied views on contentious issues involving mass media ethics and the law, noting current ethical and legal trends and likely future directions.

Editors Babcock and Freivogel (both, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) have partitioned the discussion into six sections, each subdivided into 10 individual essays.

Subject categories cover ethical responsibilities versus legal rights, newsgathering and access, privacy, libelous reporting, business considerations, and changing rules with social media and the Internet.

Contributors range from attorneys and practicing journalists to academic instructors and researchers across the spectrum of media and communications. Choice Reviews Online sums this 2015 title up as a “compelling purchase for libraries serving mass media and communications programs.” $375 for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence, edited

by Janet M. Bennett.

Cultural competence refers to the set of attitudes, practices

and policies that enables a person or agency to work well with people from differing cultural groups. Related terms include cultural sensitivity, transcultural skills, diversity competence and multicultural expertise. How can barriers blocking successful communication between individuals or agencies of differing cultures be understood and navigated to enhance intercultural communication and understanding? Students and faculty need such a work according to Editor Bennett, director of the graduate program in intercultural relations at the University of the Pacific, because "We are also recognizing that cultural differences affect the bottom line of the corporation, the effectiveness of our healthcare, the welcoming of our religious institutions, the safety of our military, the retention of our students, and the very nature of our lives and work." Designated a 2015 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews Online, this two-volume work would be used across many programs in each of USI’s colleges. $520 for Discoveries in Modern Science: Exploration, Invention, Technology, edited by James Trefil. This 2015 three-volume encyclopedia engagingly covers a wide range of the most important scientific and technological developments that have shaped the world over the last four centuries. Authored by more than 200 scientists and scholars, articles provide technical information as well as historical and cultural context, with each signed essay accompanied by a

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bibliography and a list of related topics covered in the set.

Choice Reviews Online notes that Editor Trefil (George Mason University), a physicist whose own works make science accessible to laypeople, has written “an entertaining, informative introduction that discusses the nature of science and briefly traces its development from ancient times to the 20th century. Colorfully illustrated with over 700 photographs, tables and diagrams, this work is further supplemented by a time line of scientific and technological achievements dating from the early 17th century to the present.” The set concludes with a thorough index and appendices of relevant primary sources (highly useful in USI’s curriculum) as well as Internet resources. $700 for The Cambridge World Prehistory: v.1: Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific; v.2: East Asia and the Americas; v.3: West and Central Asia and Europe, edited by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn. The definition of prehistory is tied to the appearance of written historical records from several millennia to only two centuries ago. This 2014 lavishly illustrated, three-volume set provides a unique synthesis of available contemporary data from the disciplines of archaeology, genetics and linguistics to delineate the prehistoric record for each geographic section of the planet in 104 essays. Three introductory essays on the development of the concept of world prehistory, the rise of genetics as an investigative tool in human evolution, and the varied applications of linguistics to prehistory provide essential background for all readers. Library Journal calls this title “one of the most important publications of the year” and “immensely satisfying”, while Choice Reviews Online lists it as a 2015 Outstanding Academic Title. USI’s programs in art, archaeology, anthropology and history would benefit from the varied scope of this work.  If you decide to underwrite any of the titles described, please fill-out the form on page 11 and send your gift to: USI Foundation, 8600 University Blvd., Evansville IN 47712, with a notation that it is for (title of book).

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University Archives Teams With USI Athletics For Some Pretty Tall Fun! To boost interest in the University Archives’ physical and digital collections of USI athletic memorabilia, the unit staffed a table at this year’s final home basketball games, known as Senior Night, on February 25, 2016. Arrangements were made with Ray Simmons, athletic communicaDavis Carter, a current 7’11” tions director, to dis- USI Basketball player, stands play a variety of items next to Holliden’s poster during Senior Night. from both the Indiana More pics click here!

State University Evansville era as well as more recent days. Included was a life-size poster of 7’ 6” John Hollinden, USI men’s tallest basketball player (1979-1981) whose promising professional career was cut short by a paralyzing auto accident in 1981. 100 seniors and other interested attendees held (or wore!) old uniform jerseys, shorts, basketballs, megaphones or pom-poms as they posed next to the poster. University Archives staff members engaged participants in lively conversation about USI history; some students were not aware that USI was once ISUE! Two USI students having fun during Senior Night.

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Taking a Closer Look at Rice Library’s Research Guides

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lections and help students know more about the various items in the collections through our social media pages, our hashtag (#amUSIngArtifacts), and promotions that we have in the fall and spring semesters. In the end, I’d like to become an archivist at a university. I firmly believe we can help future generations to discover the importance of our past through preserving it and making it accessible to them.

Cecilia Pryor, Senior Library Assistant in Checkout What are your main responsibilities?

As senior library assistant, I open the library Monday through Friday, process circulation and people/ door count statistics; process and keep track of overdue fines, lost items, and paid fines; create displays for the Information Wall and choose titles for the Recent Arrivals display; and maintain student records.

What do you like best about your job?

I love the hours! My workday begins at 6:45 a.m. and ends at 3:15 p.m. I like creating displays and interacting with others who work and study here.

How long have you worked here? Have you worked at any other libraries?

My first day was February 23, 2015. I worked previously as a circulation assistant for Mattoon Public Library in Illinois and for Rooney Library at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. It was through those two jobs that I realized I wanted to always work in a library in some capacity.

What are some of your goals, hobbies and interests?  To get in better health (slowly but surely!)  Communicate with my family more often (making progress...)  Pay off at least one student loan this year (outcome looks possible...)  Improve Cat-Cecilia relations through timely play sessions and meals (results as yet unknown)  I love to read (fantasy, science fiction, mysteries); I have an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and write sci-fi/fantasy.

Other hobbies include re-organizing my closets, playing with my cat, and reading and discussing books with loved ones. I love learning new things, especially in the science fields.

Research Guides, formerly known as LibGuides, are an important tool in Rice Library’s Reference Services. They include citation style guides, online tutorials demonstrating specific skills and general instruction guides such as Research 101. However, the majority of the more than 150 guides currently available are subjectspecific or course-related, designed to assist students in initiating research in a particular area of study. The guides are often used in conjunction with the library’s Instructional Services program and in one-on-one reference interviews and consultations. Additionally, faculty members are encouraged to link to relevant guides in their online course sites as a way of supporting their students’ research projects.

These many and significant uses make the guides a vital part of the library’s service to its users and worth the substantial time and effort required to develop them.

Currently two librarians are conducting a research project in an effort to improve these guides for users. Ashley Blinstrub, Rice Library’s former instruction and undergraduate experience librarian who now works as research and assessment librarian at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, MI and Phil Orr, Rice Library’s distance learning librarian, are conducting the study. Student volunteers will complete a set of tasks with one of two specific guides—one related to Psychology or another on Bioethics and Medical Ethics—in order to determine their usability. In addition to the answers recorded to specific questions by the study participants, the students’ computer screens will be recorded, noting the ease and speed with which they can locate specific resources and answer key questions. Once the data are collected and analyzed, it is expected that revisions will be made to these two guides, improving their usability. Hopefully many of the revisions will be applicable to other guides as well. Librarians Blinstrub and Orr appreciate the support they have received from the library’s administration and staff to complete this investigation as well as the participation of the student volunteers.

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families governed by a set of bylaws meant to limit buyers to those who would be homesteaders on the property and members of the community. The Board of Directors is elected by the membership; dues of about $500 per year cover taxes on common property, and upkeep and supervision of the pond and ball field.

Individual properties range from two to four acres and are not dividable. Originally from Chicago, Irving Wolfe was born February 18, 1913, and died January 31, 2009 at the age of 95. During his lifetime, he attended countless peace vigils, traveled around the globe on humanitarian missions, and defied the U.S. embargo multiple times to bring aid to Cuba. He also was a founding homeowner of the interracial Skyview Acres community in Pomona, New York, a hotbed of political and social activism.

In a February 2009 obituary for Wolfe, the Reverend Lucius Walker, with the Pastors for Peace, said he

Lantern Walk, Skyview Acres

traveled on humanitarian missions with Wolfe to Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Honduras. Wolfe also went to other countries in Latin America, as well as Africa and Asia for his work. "He was this person that exuded enthusiasm about putting his politics into action, about putting his work in civil rights into action," Walker told the crowd at a memorial service for Mr. Wolfe. Starting in 1960, Wolfe, a self-described Marxist, traveled to Cuba more than a dozen times to deliver food and medicine. His last trip there was in 2005, at the age of 10

Skyview Acres Woodland Pageant, 2007

92. He also regularly attended peace vigils in the area every Saturday.

Dr. King could easily have sent a simple note thanking Wolfe for his efforts; he didn't have to send anything at all. The fact that King took the time to detail how important Wolfe's donation was to his goal of ending discrimination showed the true character of the civil rights leader.

Dr. King notes how much moral and financial support the donation gave the SCLC, remarking that without fund raising efforts like those of the people of Skyview Acres, it would be “...unable to work Original letter written to Martin effectively toward its Luther King, Jr. from Irving M. goal of the full Wolfe, President of Skyview Acres. integration of the Negro into all aspects of American life.” King concludes his speech (disguised as a letter) by saying “I am confident that if we continue to gain this type of

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support, this sweltering summer of discontent can be transformed into an invigorating autumn of justice and freedom for all people.”

Students processing archive collections for the History 323 class, Introduction to Archival Theory, found this letter while working through stacks of Skyview Acres’ correspondence. Student Logan Walters said the header on the stationery, “Southern Christian Leadership Conference” caught his attention so he pulled it out of the pile; his eye was immediately drawn to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s signature. “It is one of those truly enlightening moments in archival work,” said Archives and Reference Librarian Jennifer Greene. “History comes to life when

Above a hand drawn map of the Skyview Acres Community in 1974. In addition, University Archives has a number of formal blue prints of this site.

you see a real signature and read the actual words put down by a man as wise and poetic as Martin Luther King, Jr.”

I want to support the David L. Rice Library If you wish to provide a gift of support, you may direct it to the Friends of David L. Rice Library Fund. Tax-deductible contributions to this fund help to underwrite library priorities including collection support, digitization efforts and preservation requirements. In addition, they allow library administration the flexibility with which to address everchanging needs. Click here for a print version.

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tunity to reminisce. Everyone had a winning experience with a walk down memory lane; putting actual historical objects into students’ hands can be quite transforming.

The library’s University Archives is committed to preserving University and community history through its digital collections. The Athletics Collection contains photographs and media guides of men's and women's athletic programs at ISUE and USI from 1965 to 2010. Each collection is searchable online, and individual items also are discoverable through the fUSIon search tool, using the Digital Archives tab. For assistance with any digital collection, contact Jennifer Greene (812-464-1832, jagreene@usi.edu) or Deanna Engler (812-465-1643, ddengler@usi.edu).

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Dominic Hayes, son of Jason Hayes, a USI Alumnus is pictured sitting on the floor outside the University Archives main door.