Monday, November 20, 2017

Library Champions


This week’s Library Champion is Dr. Edward Whitelock. Dr. Whitelock visits the Dorothy W. Hightower Collaborative Learning Center & Library several times a semester. “I have been using interlibrary loans for years and it has never let me down. Back when David Janssen and I were collaborating on our book project, Apocalypse Jukebox, we were able to complete nearly all of our research on campus through that service.” Whitelock was able to receive hard copies of articles that he could not get through the library’s databases. Whitelock is teaching History of the English language for “our BA majors this semester, and the library’s reference section is among our most important tools.” Whitelock has his class use the Oxford English dictionary, and the Shakespeare and Bible concordances.  Whitelock uses the ProQuest databases and he encourages his students to do likewise. “They are easily searchable and allow students to set exact parameters for what they are researching.” Whitelock recommends the interlibrary loan and the American National Biography, which he has contributed to, located in the library’s reference section. Whitelock likes “the library’s physical book holdings. He feels they “are excellent and exceed what is usually expected for a college of our size. The librarians have consistently worked to bring new and timely materials into the collection. Once or twice a semester, I’ll just wander among the stacks and find a few new and interesting books that I didn’t know we had received