EIU Booth Library

Film On Demand Quizlets

Posted on November 20th, 2020

Booth’s new streaming video service, Films On Demand, has a great new quiz feature for professors.

The quiz feature is beneficial because professors can test students during the video! It also helps to ensure that students watch and retain information from the assigned videos.

The way it is done is on the side of the video. There is a section called transcripts, which is like a table of contents, where you can search for keywords used within the video. Next to it is the quiz link. When creating it, it can be named, have an unlimited amount of questions, and be anything from multiple choices to true or false. It can be timed as well. There is an option to get test results sent to you via email and an option to clarify instructions on the quiz and how to submit it. These quizzes can be shared through links or online classrooms if a professor wishes to create a class section on Film On Demand. The snapshots below illustrate these features.

Recording of U.S. Poet Laureate program available

Posted on November 11th, 2020

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo read from her book, “An American Sunrise,” during a special virtual event on Jan. 30. The program was part of EIU Booth Library’s Big Read program.

Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek, read from “An American Sunrise” and participated in a moderated Q+A discussion. A recording of the program will be available until March 1 on YouTube here.

Harjo’s program was sponsored by Booth Library, the Broward County Library (Florida), Broward Public Library Foundation Inc., and Florida Center for the Book. The event was part of the annual Lions in Winter festival sponsored by the EIU Department of English.

In 2019, Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position. She has since been reappointed to the position twice, with her third term scheduled to begin in September 2021. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.

In “American Sunrise,” Harjo’s eighth collection of poems, she revisits the homeland from which her ancestors were uprooted in 1830 as a result of the Indian Removal Act. The book explores the power of nature, spirituality, memory, violence, and the splintered history of America’s indigenous peoples.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Resources for Native American Heritage Month

Posted on November 5th, 2020

Native American Heritage Month celebrates the history, culture, and achievements of Native Americans in the United States. Established in 1990 by President H.W. Bush, November is recognized as Native American Heritage Month.

To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, and as part of the library’s NEA Big Read programming series, Booth Library is pleased to bring Kim McIver Sigafus to campus. On November 9th at 6:30 p.m., she will present “A Peek Into the American Indian Way of Life Through Their History and Oral Traditions,” a virtual event live-streamed from the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more details, click here.

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning more about Native American history and culture. Check out one of the books on this guide created by librarian Janice Derr.