Picture of WIU Librarians and friends on Founder's Day

WIU Librarians & Friends @ Founder's Day!

FOLLOW-UP
FOIA Confirmations!

Earlier this semester, a WIU Admin official asserted to the Faculty Senate Exec. Cmte., that sister univ. ISU employed only "3" librarians. A few FOIA requests corrected the record:

IL Public Univs.	# Librarians w/ MLS
NIU	22
ISU	17
SIU-E	15
EIU	13
WIU*	0

*per recent termination letters

Saluting Margaret Dunbar -- WIU's First Librarian

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Margaret Dunbar
WIU's 1st Librarian (1902-1912)

THE DUNBAR T — The Original

This first edition Dunbar T ("The Original") t-shirt commemorates the life and career of our dynamic WIU librarian forebear, Margaret Dunbar (1872-1957). A trailblazing leader and WIU's 1st Librarian (1902-1912), Dunbar held two academic degrees before women had yet won the right to vote!

We know – without question – that Margaret would strongly disapprove the very notion of eliminating ALL the librarians at Western Illinois University. Margaret would say, "NO! Do Not Fire The Librarians! Change Course; Do Better by Our Students!" Read More about Margaret's Amazing Story...!

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WORDS DESCRIBING
the WIU Librarian Firings &
Consequences for WIU Students:

ABERRANT (adj) 1. Differing from the norm. 2. Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. , ABNORMAL (adj) 1. Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal. 2. Of or pertaining to that which is irregular; behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety. , ABOMINABLE (adj) 1. Worthy of or causing abhorrence; a thing of evil portent; odious in the utmost degree; detestable; loathsome. 2. Very bad or inferior; disagreeable or unpleasant. , ABSURD (adj) 1. Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously & flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous. , ADVERSE (adj) 1. Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's [own] interests or welfare. , APPALLING (adj) 1. Horrifying and astonishing. 2. Extremely bad; terrible. , ASTONISHING (adj) 1. Loss of composure or presence of mind. 2. Something very surprising; stunning. , ASTOUNDING (adj) 1. Stunned; astonished. , AWFUL (adj) 1. Very bad. 2. Appalling -- terrible. , BAD (adj) 1. Unfavorable; negative; not good. 2. Inappropriate; not suitable or fitting. , BANEFUL (adj) 1. Harmful; injurious , BEWILDERING (adj) 1. Very baffling -- confusing -- or perplexing -- often due to a very large choice being available. 2. head-scratching; puzzlesome. , BIZARRE (adj) 1. Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience -- often in an extravagant -- fantastic -- and/or conspicuous way. , CALAMITOUS (adj) 1. Concerning or involving calamity -- disastrous. , CAPRICIOUS (adj) 1. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance -- impulse -- or whim , CARELESS (adj) 1. Not giving sufficient attention or thought -- especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. , CATACLYSMIC (adj) 1. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic. , CATASTROPHIC (adj) 1. Disastrous; ruinous. 2. From which recovery is impossible. , CONFOUNDING (adj) 1. The act by which things are confounded -- or confused. , CORRODING (adj) 1. The gradual destruction or undermining of something; to impair , CRAZY (adj) 1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.] 2. Out of control; very unexpected; wildly surprising. , CRIPPLING (adj) 1. That cripples or incapacitates -- causing serious injury -- damage -- or harm. 2. Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental. , CURIOUS (adj) 1. Leading one to ask questions about; odd -- out of the ordinary -- or unusual. , DAFFY (adj) 1. Somewhat mad -- nutty or eccentric , DAMAGING (adj) 1. Causing damage; harmful -- injurious. , DELETERIOUS (adj) 1. Harmful -- often in a subtle or unexpected way. , DESTRUCTIVE (adj) 1. Causing destruction; damaging. 2. Causing breakdown or disassembly. , DETRIMENTAL (adj) 1. Causing damage -- harm -- or injury. , DIRE (adj) 1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. 2. Bad in quality -- awful; terrible; dreadful; dismal. , DISADVANTAGEOUS (adj) 1. Not advantageous. , DISASTROUS (adj) 1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. 2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened. , DREADFUL (adj) 1. Genuinely horrific -- awful -- or alarming; dangerous -- risky. , DULL (adj) 1. Not sharp; insensible; sluggish -- not clear -- muffled. , DUMB (adj) 1. Pointless -- foolish -- lacking intellectual content or value. , ERRATIC (adj) 1. Unsteady -- random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent. 2. Eccentric, odd. , EYE-POPPING (adj) 1. Astonishing -- stunning -- incredible. , FARCICAL (adj) 1. Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd. , FAR-OUT (adj) 1. Very unusual -- eccentric or unconventional. , FATAL (adj) 1. Foreboding great disaster. 2. (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. , FLAKY (adj) 1. Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction. , FOOLISH (adj) 1. Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. , FREAKISH (adj) 1. Strange -- unusual -- abnormal or bizarre. , FREAKY (adj) 1. Odd; bizarre; unusual. , FUTILE (adj) 1. Incapable of producing results -- useless. 2. Doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. , GHASTLY (adj) 1. Horrifyingly shocking. 2. Extremely bad. , GOOFY (adj) 1. quirky , GROTESQUE (adj) 1. Distorted and unnatural in character; abnormal. , HAREBRAINED (adj) 1. Absurd; foolish. , HARMFUL (adj) 1. Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious. , HIDEOUS (adj) 1. Morally offensive; shocking. , HORRIBLE (adj) 1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing -- particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. , HORRIFIC (adj) 1. Horrifying -- causing horror; horrible. , ILLOGICAL (adj) 1. Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning. 2. Unsound. , IMPRACTICABLE (adj) 1. Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice. , INADVISABLE (adj) 1. Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised. , INANE (adj) 1. Lacking sense or meaning. 2. Purposeless; pointless. , INCOHERENT (adj) 1. Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent. 2. Not cohering socially, not united. , INCONGRUOUS (adj) 1. Not similar or congruent; not matching. , INIMICAL (adj) 1. Harmful in effect. 2. Unfriendly, hostile. , INJURIOUS (adj) 1. Causing harm or injury; hurtful. , IRRATIONAL (adj) 1. Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical. , IRREGULAR (adj) 1. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations. , KOOKY (adj) 1. (slang) Eccentric -- strange -- or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish. , LAUGHABLE (adj) 1. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision. , LOONY (adj) 1. Insane; absurd. , LOUSY (adj) 1. Remarkably bad; of poor quality. , LUDICROUS (adj) 1. Unthinkable -- plainly incongruous or absurd. , MALEFIC (adj) 1. Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful. , MALIGNANT (adj) 1. Harmful -- malevolent -- injurious. 2. Threatening a fatal issue. , MIND-BOGGLING (adj) 1. That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out. , MISLEADING (adj) 1. To create a false impression -- even if technically true. , NOCUOUS (adj) 1. Likely to cause harm or damage. , NON-SENSICAL (adj) 1. Without sense; absurd. , NOXIOUS (adj) 1. Harmful; injurious. , NUTTY (adj) 1. Containing nuts; resembling or characteristic of nuts. 2. (slang) Barmy, crazy, mad. , ODD (adj) 1. Differing from what is usual -- ordinary or expected. 2. Not regular or planned. , ODDBALL (adj) 1. Eccentric or unusual , OFF-THE-WALL (adj) 1. Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 2. Greatly inappropriate. , OFFBEAT (adj) 1. Unusual; unconventional. 2. Odd; peculiar; weird. , OFF-CENTER (adj) 1. Eccentric -- unbalanced -- slightly wrong. , OUT-IN-LEFT-FIELD (adj) 1. An unusual or unexpected position -- or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint. , OUTLANDISH (adj) 1. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre -- outrageous -- strange. , OUTRAGEOUS (adj) 1. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant -- immoderate. 2. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. , PECULIAR (adj) 1. Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual. , PERNICIOUS (adj) 1. Causing much harm in a subtle way. , PESTIFEROUS (adj) 1. Vexatious. 2. Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause. , PESTILENTIAL (adj) 1. Having a harmful moral effect. , PREPOSTEROUS (adj) 1. Absurd -- or contrary to common sense. , RECKLESS (adj) 1. Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash. 2. Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof. , RIDICULOUS (adj) 1. Deserving of ridicule; foolish -- absurd. 2. Astonishing; extreme; unbelievable. , RISKY (adj) 1. Dangerous -- involving risks. , RUINOUS (adj) 1. Causing ruin; destructive -- calamitous. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as an edifice; bridge; or [library] in a ruinous state. , SCREWY (adj) 1. Crazy; silly; ridiculous. 2. Tipsy; worthless. , SENSELESS (adj) 1. Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense. 2. Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement , SILLY (adj) 1. Laughable; absurd. 2. Thoughtless -- lacking judgment; (obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned. , SINISTER (adj) 1. Ominous 2. Wrong -- as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse. , STARTLING (adj) 1. Likely to startle; surprising; shocking. , STRANGE (adj) 1. Not normal; odd -- unusual -- surprising -- out of the ordinary -- especially if slightly uncomfortable. 2. Unknown. , STUNNING (adj) 1. Having an effect that stuns (shock or surprise). 2. Incapacitating; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness. , STUPEFYING (adj) 1. That causes stupefaction (state of extreme shock or astonishment). 2. Causing a state of insensibility; stupor. , TERRIBLE (adj) 1. Dreadful; causing terror -- alarm and fear. 2. Unpleasant; disagreeable; very bad; lousy. , TOMFOOL (adj) 1. A silly or stupid idea. , TRAGIC (adj) 1. Causing great sadness or suffering. 2. (informal) Cringeworthy; embarrassing; hopeless. , UNBELIEVABLE (adj) 1. Amazing -- astonishing; to surprising to be believed. 2. Infeasible; impractical. , UNDERMINING (adj) 1. To erode the base or foundation of something. , UNHEALTHY (adj) 1. characterized by -- or conducive to poor [mental -- academic] health. , UNNATURAL (adj) 1. Going against nature; or the accepted way. , UNPROPITIOUS (adj) 1. Not propitious; unfavourable -- untimely. , UNREALISTIC (adj) 1. Expressed or represented as being inaccurate -- inpracticable -- or not idealistic. , UNREASONABLE (adj) 1. Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for. , UNSAFE (adj) 1. Precarious -- rickety -- shaky -- tottering -- unsteady -- unstable -- wobbly. , UNTOWARD (adj) 1. Unfavourable -- adverse -- or disadvantageous. 2. Improper. , UNWHOLESOME (adj) 1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful. 2. Not sound. , WACKY (adj) 1. Zany -- eccentric. , WANTON (adj) 1. Undisciplined -- unruly; not able to be controlled. 2. Acting with disregard for the well-being of others , WAY-OUT (adj) 1. Unusual -- unconventional or strange. 2. (slang) out of the mainstream of society. , WEIRD (adj) 1. Deviating from the normal; bizarre. , WILD (adj) 1. Very inaccurate; far off the mark. 2. Tangled.