Multicultural Outreach Services: Programs and Outreach
The University of Illinois Libraries has begun a coordinated outreach program designed to support several academic and culturally-related programs and offices as a way to help promote an open and inclusive environment for all students, faculty and staff. The following partnerships provide information about current collaborative partnerships underway between the library and other campus services.
International Film Week at the Undergraduate Library
The Undergraduate Library will be hosting the Second Annual International Film Week from Tuesday, April 1st - Thursday, April 3rd, 2008. Please join us in the Undergraduate Library, Room 295 at 6pm to watch the screenings of the Danish film, Adam's Apple, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival; Shake Hands with the Devil, a winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award; and the Singaporean film, Be With Me, a winner of the Stockholm and Tokyo Film Festivals. Light refreshments will be served.
- Adam's Apple (Netherlands)
- Tuesday, April 1st
- Shake Hands with the Devil
- Wednesday, April 2nd
- Be With Me
(Singapore)
- Thursday, April 3rd
Office of Minority Student Affairs
- McNairs Scholars Program McNairs Scholars Program – Library hosts an integrated library instruction program into the semester long program to help prepare students with advanced researching skills.
- Weekly Drop-in Library workshops – Students can sign up for one-to-one tutoring on time saving search strategies.
- Wednesdays at 3pm
Cultural Centers: Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, La Casa, Asian American Cultural Center, Native American House
- Time-Saving Research Workshops –A librarian visits the cultural centers to give an overview of effective, time-saving research practices to help students with the research and writing process during term-paper season
- Asian American Cultural Center: Tuesdays at 1pm
- African American Cultural Center: First and third Tuesdays of the month at 2pm
- La Casa: Second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 2pm
- Exhibits – The Undergraduate Library has collaborated in the past with some of the cultural centers on creating exhibits that promote cultural diversity on campus and in the community
Study Abroad Office
- Library Resources Information for Study Abroad students Library Resources Information for Study Abroad students – Information packets on library resources are available to students studying abroad both online and at the Study Abroad Office
Office of International Students and Scholars
- New Student Orientations (Fall, Spring, Summer)
Fourth series of Multilingual Library Tours (2008)
- The Library is once again holding tours of the library in multiple languages. This year, you can sign up or drop in for a tour in French, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Japanese.
- To sign up, e-mail Emily Love at elove@uiuc.edu, or simply meet in the Marshall Gallery in the Main Library (entrance across from the Undergraduate Library) shortly before the tour.
Friday, Jan 18th 10am Chinese 11am French 12pm 1pm Korean 2pm Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu 3pm Spanish 4pm Japanese
Contact Information:
Emily Love
Outreach Librarian for Multicultural Services
elove@uiuc.edu
(217) 333-3285
