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Join the Northeastern Illinois University Libraries for a virtual conversation with David Beck, author of the book  Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, published in 2019 by the University of Nebraska Press. This event will take place on Wednesday, March 31 at 2:30pm via Zoom.

As tribal economies lay mostly in ruins by the end of the 19th century, individual American Indians began to look for ways to earn a living in the larger cash economy. The 1893 world’s fair in Chicago provided opportunities for this, both in the year leading up to it, and throughout the fair’s duration. This presentation will show the variety of ways that the fair brought employment to Native Americans along with the challenges that they faced. It will also provide a discussion of the extent to which they were treated and compensated fairly.
 

David Beck is an award winning historian who has published several books on American Indian history, including Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and City Indian: Native American Activists in Chicago, 1893-1934, which he co-authored with Rosalyn LaPier. He is currently working on a book about the 1950s federal policy of terminating the political status of tribal nations. He is a professor in the Native American Studies Department at the University of Montana.

Register for this event here: https://neiu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucu2opzMtGdQOoT41KsxO6LDZlQmXotrz

Questions? Contact Ed Remus, Social Sciences Librarian, at e-remus@neiu.edu.

In the past, the NEIU Libraries have supported Money Smart Week, a public awareness campaign launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, to promote financial literacy. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, all 2021 Money Smart Week events will be held online Saturday, April 10 – Saturday, April 17. This week-long free virtual campaign aims to help people better manage their personal finances with a focus on those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Events are free and open to the public, but registration is advised. Questions for the panelists can be submitted during the registration process. Click here for more info and to register!

The NEIU Libraries want to celebrate the research and work you’ve done this year! Please consider participating in the NEIU Libraries 8th Annual Awards for Excellence in Research which recognizes outstanding student efforts in the area of library-based research. 

This year, up to four applications from the different colleges will be selected to receive $300 each. We have expanded eligibility requirements from past years to include all currently enrolled students who have used NEIU Libraries resources for a research-based assignment. 

The deadline to apply is Sunday, April 11 at 11:59 p.m. CST. Submissions require three short-answer questions and a bibliography of sources. Please click here or more information and to enter.

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, selected Professor of Health Sciences and Physical Education Jennifer Banas as a winner of its 2021 Writing Award, which aims to honor exemplary writing featured in its blogs and journals. Her article, “A Public Health Approach to Uncovering the Health-Related Needs of Teen Library Patrons,” was published in the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults and was co-authored by Assistant Professor and Education Librarian Michelle Oh and staff from the Chicago Public Library.

Congrats to the YALSA 2021 writing award winners!

Open Education Week (March 1-5) is a time to celebrate the global Open Education Movement and raise awareness about freely available educational materials such as textbooks and the impact this can have on students everywhere.  

To support cost savings for students, NEIU Libraries invites applications to attend a faculty workshop on introductory open educational resources at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. At this workshop, faculty will learn more about different types of open educational resources and the benefits of adopting open educational resources, and will have the chance to ask any questions about these resources.

Faculty who attend the two-hour workshop and write one brief review of an open educational resource for the Open Textbook Library within 30 days of the workshop date will receive a $200 stipend.

Participation for the workshop is capped at 20 faculty (instructors, adjuncts and tenure-track faculty are eligible), and priority registration will be given to faculty who have taught, are teaching or plan to teach general education courses in academic year 2020-2021 or academic year 2021-2022. Attendees from the Spring 2020 workshop are not eligible.

Apply online through Sunday, March 28. Please contact Education Librarian Michelle Oh at m-oh@neiu.edu or Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies Librarian Robin Harris at r-harris14@neiu.edu with any questions.