Please check out the display of new titles on “Asian Anthropology” in the Reference Room. Through a collection partnership grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, the library has been able to add 56 titles on this subject to the Circulating Collection.

Among the many titles displayed are:

• After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
• Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt
• Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures Across National Boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia
• Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia
• The Enigma of the Kerala Woman: a Foiled Promise of Literacy
• Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands
• No One Cries for the Dead: Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs, and Graveyard Petitions
• Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia
• Tribal India: Communities, Customs, and Culture

by Katy Luxion

From 24 to 452: that’s the increase in full-text journals from SAGE that Oesterle Library gained by purchasing access to the SAGE Premier Database.

SAGE is a leader in the academic publishing market. They publish journals, books, and electronic media. “SAGE Premier is a really exciting addition to the library’s online journal holdings,” says Emily Prather, Technical Services Coordinator at Oesterle Library.

According to Prather, “[The database] includes full text access to 452 journals published by SAGE, spanning a wide range of subjects. Access includes current issues and all of the older issues all the way back to 1999.”

So while you working on researching for an article or a paper remember, you now have over 18 times the resources that you used to at your fingertips from SAGE. A list of all the SAGE Journals is available at http://www.sagepub.com/journalsIndex.nav .

by Katy Luxion

Do you have a puzzling question? Having a hard time finding research for a paper? Like the rest of the library staff, new staff member Shannon McGregor loves to help students solve these problems.

Having started her career in the public library system, Shannon says that she found the questions of commuters and college students to be the most challenging. Loving a challenge, she decided to shift to working in an academic setting. Moving to Illinois with her family six months ago allowed her to make that transition. Accepting a position at North Central College’s Oesterle Library helped to make this possible. While working part-time at North Central College, she also works as a librarian part-time at the University of Francis Library in Joliet.

When asked why she chose to become a librarian, Shannon spoke of her love for all of the information that surrounds her while she is working. To be able to harness that information and “help people make better use of it than they might on their own” is one of the perks of the job. She feels as a librarian “there is nothing greater than when someone comes up to my desk with a question…[and] they leave me with something that they didn’t have before…a book, a database, even the answer to a trivia question.”

Shannon has a BA in English from Univ. of North Texas, and also a Masters of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. With her love of reading and helping students to find the information and answers that they are looking for, Shannon makes a wonderful addition to the Oesterle Library staff. Welcome Shannon!