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Booth wins Library Innovative Award

Posted on November 25th, 2014

Booth Library is the recipient of the 2014 Illinois Library Association Demco Library Innovative Award. This award recognizes a library’s achievement in planning and implementing an innovative or creative program or service that has had a measurable impact on its users. The award is sponsored by Demco, one of the nation’s leaders for library supplies.

The Demco Library Innovative Award was presented at the Illinois Library Association Annual Conference Awards Luncheon on Oct. 14 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield.

Using the model of inclusivity, Booth Library in 2013 developed a creative series of programs that expanded the reach of a national grant far beyond the walls of the library. “America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Library Association and Tribeca Film Institute, supported a film series focusing on varied genres.

However, library staff saw the opportunity to both educate and entertain the larger area community through a wide variety of unique programming offered both on the EIU campus and in six communities in the region.

The grant provided a major outreach opportunity for Booth Library to unite six regional public library audiences with students, faculty and other community members interested in exploring American music, history and culture. The participating public libraries were in the communities of Danville, Decatur, Robinson, Shelbyville, Paris and Marshall.

The “America’s Music” series creatively engaged members of the library’s targeted audience to directly participate in programming rather than simply being observers. More than 20 amateur and professional musicians from the community performed. Nearly 30 EIU faculty members also performed, gave lectures and led discussions.

In addition, almost 80 EIU students shared their talents by talking about their research; curating exhibits; playing, singing and dancing to blues, gospel, Broadway and jazz music; and producing the opening and closing programs. Finally, an overnight mini-camp brought nine talented vocalists form area high schools to campus to learn, rehearse and perform Broadway numbers in the closing concert.

In a letter of support, Nancy K. Claypool, library director of the Marshall Public Library, said: “The Marshall community is rural and low-income…When free events such as these occur in the community, it is often the only opportunity to see and learn about things other than the life they know here…This program broke down the barriers, for one terrific evening, that so many people encounter on an everyday basis.”

The program allowed the library to promote the humanities in the region and enrich rural and small-town life. As noted in the nomination: “With so many rural areas left with meager or no school programs in art, music and film, this program allowed us to stimulate both students and adults to recognize the benefits of education in the arts and humanities.”

Government Documents on the Ebola virus

Posted on November 17th, 2014

Included in this post are government publications that document the United States government response to the concern about the spread of the Ebola epidemic currently affecting West Africa.

Title: Checklist for healthcare coalitions for Ebola preparedness
Checklist for patients being evaluated for Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the United States
Detailed hospital checklist for Ebola preparedness
Ebola (National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology)
Ebola virus disease (EVD), algorithm for evaluation of the returned traveler
Facts about Ebola in the U.S.
Health care facility preparedness checklist for Ebola virus disease (EVD)
Health care provider preparedness checklist for Ebola virus disease
Interim guidance for specimen collection, transport, testing and submission for patients with suspected infection with Ebola virus disease
What you need to know about Ebola
CDC Mission: Responding to outbreaks [Electronic Resource / 7 minute video]
Filoviruses a link to a Springerlink online book focusing on the clinical history of Ebola-like viruses
Centers for Disease Control CDC
PBS’ Frontline interactive map: How the Ebola Outbreak Spread Through Africa

“Under President Obama’s lead, the United States has contributed more than $156 million to fighting Ebola and deployed more than 100 experts from our CDC-Centers for Disease Control. We’re committed to sending 4,000 U.S. forces to the region.” –Ambassador Samantha Power, Cabinet Member and United Nations Representative, October 10, 2014–

Brooks presentation has been rescheduled

Posted on November 17th, 2014

Lisa Brooks, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, has postponed her presentation in Booth Library’s fall program series, “Revolutionary Decade: Reflections on the 1960s.”

Brooks will present “1960s Restaurant and Food Trends: Modern Day Influences” at 4 p.m. Dec. 2 in Booth Library’s Witters Conference Room 4440. Brooks’ program was originally scheduled for Nov. 18.

For an updated schedule of events in the “Revolutionary Decade” series, visit the program website here.

War stories: personal narratives from veterans

Posted on November 10th, 2014

Those of us who haven’t been in the military will never completely
understand what it’s like to go to a faraway place and face down the
enemy. Most of us will never be seriously injured in the line of duty or see a buddy killed in action. The sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform and the experience of war in general are the subject of these memoirs and personal narratives held in Booth Library collections, organized by war and branch of service. Each title is linked to the library catalog record so you can see the book’s availability and how to get it from the shelf. For a complete list with call numbers and short notes, save this file: War-stories-memoirs.

For younger readers, see Booth’s topic guide: War Bibliography: Selected books for Young Adults

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Air Force
∗ The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese (by Robinson Risner)

Army
∗ American Warrior: a Combat Memoir of Vietnam (by John C. “Doc” Bahnsen)
∗ American Warrior: the True Story of a Legendary Ranger (by Gary O’Neal)
∗ . . . And a Hard Rain Fell: a GI’s True Story of the War in Vietnam (by John Ketwig)
∗ Bait (by Donald Stephen)
∗ Born on the Fourth of July (by Ron Kovic)
∗ The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam (by Andrew
Wiest)
∗ Chickenhawk (by Robert Mason)
∗ The Courageous and the Proud (by Samuel Vance)
∗ Don’t Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam (by Susan O’Neill)
∗ The Ghosts of Thua Thien: an American Soldier’s Memoir of Vietnam (by John A. Nesser)
∗ Going After Cacciato (by Tim O’Brien)
∗ A Hundred Miles of Bad Road: an Armored Cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68 (by Dwight Birdwell)
∗ If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (by Tim O’Brien)
∗ In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War (by Tobias Wolff)
∗ Journal of a Combat Tanker: Vietnam. 1969 (by Toby L. Brant)
∗ My Detachment: a Memoir (by Tracy Kidder)
∗ Nam: Things that Weren’t True, and Other Stories, Some Funny — Some Sad (by Robert McGowan)
∗ The New Legions (by Don Duncan)
∗ Platoon Leader (by James R. McDonough)
∗ Rice Paddy Grunt: Unfading Memories of the Vietnam Generation (by John M.G. Brown)
∗ Silence Was a Weapon: the Vietnam War in the Villages, a Personal Perspective (by Stuart Herrington)
∗ Strong at the Broken Places (by Max Cleland)
∗ The Things They Carried: a Work of Fiction (by Tim O’Brien)
∗ To Bear Any Burden: a Hoosier Green Beret’s Letters from Vietnam (by Daniel H. FitzGibbon)
∗ Two One Pony: an American Soldier’s Year in Vietnam, 1969 (by Charles R. Carr)

Marines
∗ Born on the Fourth of July (by Ron Kovic)
∗ Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam (by John Edmund Delezen)
∗ Fire Mission: the World of Nam, a Marine’s Story (by Earl J. Gorman)
∗ Fortunate Son: the Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (by Lewis B. Puller)
∗ Last Man Out: the True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam (by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin)
∗ Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War
(by W. D. Ehrhart)
∗ Phase Line Green: the Battle for Hue, 1968 (by Nicholas Warr)
∗ A Rumor of War (by Philip Caputo)

Navy
∗ Swimmers Among the Trees: SEAL Operations in the Vietnam War (by Joel Hutchins)
∗ When Hell Was in Session (by Jeremiah Denton)
∗ When I Was a Young Man: a Memoir (by Bob Kerrey)

Anthology
∗ A Piece of My Heart: the Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam (by Keith Walker)
∗ Powder: Writings by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (by Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cain, eds.)
∗ The Vietnam Reader: the Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War (by Stewart O’Nan)
∗ Women in Vietnam (by Ron Steinman)

Persian Gulf War, 1991

Air Force
∗ Falcon’s Cry: a Desert Storm Memoir (by Michael Donnelly)
∗ Viper Pilot: a Memoir of Air Combat (by Dan Hampton)

Marines
∗ Baghdad Express: a Gulf War Memoir (by Joel Turnipseed)
∗ Jarhead: a Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (by Anthony Swofford)

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Air Force
∗ Return With Honor (by Scott O’Grady)

Afghan War, 2001

Air Force
∗ Predator: the Remote Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: a Pilot’s Story (by Matt Martin)

Army
∗ Back in the Fight: the Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up (by Joseph Kapacziewski)
∗ Crossing the Wire: One Woman’s Journey, and Her Surprising Revelations About the Dangers We Face (by AnnaMaria Cardinalli)
∗ Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country (by Benjamin Tupper)
∗ Horse Soldiers: the Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (by Doug Stanton)
∗ Lions of Kandahar (by Rusty Bradley)
∗ Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (by Sean Parnell)
∗ The Unforgiving Minute: a Soldier’s Education (by Craig Mullaney)
∗ The War I Always Wanted: the Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: a Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq (by Brandon Friedman)

Marines
∗ Into the Fire: a First-Hand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War (by Dakota Meyer)
∗ A Nightmare’s Prayer: a Marine Corps Harrier Pilot’s War in Afghanistan (by Michael Franzak)

Navy
∗ Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic (by Mark L. Donald)
∗ Lone Survivor: the Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (by Marcus Luttrell)
∗ The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen (by Brandon Webb)

Anthology
∗ Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America’s Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan (by Chuck Larson)
∗ Long Hard Road: NCO Experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq
∗ Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan (by Elizabeth Scannell-Desch)
∗ Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (by Andrew Carroll)
∗ When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans (by Laura Browder and Sascha Pflaeging)

Iraq War, 2003-2011

Air Force
∗ Predator: the Remote-Control Air War Over Iraq and Afghanistan: a Pilot’s Story (by Matt Martin)

Army
∗ An Angel from Hell: Real Life on the Front Lines (by Ryan Conklin)
∗ Back in Action: an American Soldier’s Story of Courage, Faith, and Fortitude (by David Rozelle)
∗ Back in the Fight: the Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up (by Joseph Kapaziewski)
∗ Baghdad at Sunrise: a Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq (by Peter R. Mansoor)
∗ Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander (by Todd S. Brown)
∗ Beyond Duty: Life on the Frontline in Iraq (by Shannon Meehan and Roger Thompson)
∗ The Day After He Left for Iraq: a Story of Love, Family and Reunion (by Melissa Seligman)
∗ House to House: an Epic Memoir of War (by David Bellavia)
∗ Just Another Soldier: a Year on the Ground in Iraq (by Jason Hartley)
∗ Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (by Matt Gallagher)
∗ The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: an Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq (by John Crawford)
∗ My War: Killing Time in Iraq (by Colby Buzzell)
∗ The War I Always Wanted: the Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: a Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq (by Brandon Friedman)

Marines
∗ Among Warriors in Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Raiding in Mosul and Fallujah (by Mike Tucker)
∗ Blood Stripes: the Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq (by David Danelo)
∗ Dust to Dust: a Memoir (by Benjamin Busch)
∗ From Baghdad With Love: a Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (by Jay Kopelman)
∗ Hesitation Kills: a Female Marine Officer’s Combat Experience in Iraq (by Jane Blair)
∗ Joker One: a Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (by Donovan Campbell)
∗ Once a Marine: an Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery (by Nick Popaditch)
∗ Packing Inferno: the Unmaking of a Marine (by Tyler Boudreau)

Navy
∗ American Sniper: the Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (by Chris Kyle)
∗ Ruff’s War: a Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq (by Cheryl Lynn Ruff)

Anthology
∗ Eyewitness to War: the U.S. Army in Operation AL FAJR: an Oral History (by Kendall Gott)
∗ Gray Land: Soldiers on War (by Barry M. Goldstein)
∗ Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America’s Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan (by Chuck Larson)
∗ The Lonely Soldier: the Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (by Helen Benedict)
∗ Long Hard Road: NCO Experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq
∗ Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan (by Elizabeth Scannell-Desch)
∗ Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and their Families (by Andrew Carroll)
∗ Powder: Writings by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (by Lisa Bowden)
∗ Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories (by Elise Tripp)
∗ What Was Asked of Us: an Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought it (by Trish Wood)
∗ When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans (by Laura Browder)

Library adds 875 new titles in October

Posted on November 7th, 2014

During October, Booth Library acquired and cataloged 875 new items. The list can be viewed here. The list is arranged by location: Ballenger Teachers’ Center, Books, Electronic Resources, Illinois and Federal Documents, Maps, Media, Reference Collection, Special Collections and University Archives. The titles are listed by call number within each location. Please contact Karen Whisler, head of Collection Development, at 581-7551 or klwhisler@eiu.edu if you have questions.