University of The People - Library Services

Library Services

Students have access to the UoPeople Library & Resource Center (ULRC), a virtual environment delivered through the University course site. Among the features of ULRC are Open Education Resources (OER) such as the Toolbox, which serves to organize open-access e-books and journals; proprietary databases from the Library and Information Resources Network (LIRN); and online access to assistance from librarians.

The Library Services leadership includes:

• Ilene Frank, Director of Library Services, former reference librarian (1974 to 2009) at the University of South Florida (USF).

The Library Services Advisory Board includes:

• Ilene Frank, Director of Library Services, former reference librarian (1974 to 2009) at the University of South Florida (USF)
• Carol Goodson, Head of Library Access Services at the University of West Georgia.
• S. Blair Kauffman, Law Librarian and Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
• James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University.
• Tom Peters, CEO of “TAP Information Services”, former Dean of University Libraries at Western Illinois University.
• Elizabeth F. Watson, Campus Librarian at the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados of The University of the West Indies (UWI).