Authors recognized
Jennifer Davis
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: News
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The evening was "to encourage more research and publication from members of the university community," Huesmann said. "We invite all faculty and staff who have published within the last year to be able to come here and be recognized."
The Author Recognition ceremony will become an annual event for Western. The library also purchases copies of all publications from Western's faculty and staff.
"You see people from all the different disciplines, but you see staff members as well," Huesmann said. "You may not know this, but Western Illinois University library strives to get every item published by any faculty author here at the university," he added.
Another goal of the library is to create an "Institutional Repository" of all the published authors at Western. This will be a database once everything is set into place where every copyrighted work will be accessed by computer. If anyone wishes to look up the authors who were honored for their published work, it will be available to them. Huesmann said this is the project for next year.
Bill McCamey, law enforcement and justice administration professor, wrote a text entitled Contemporary Municipal Policing along with co-authors Steve Cox and Gene Scaramella, both from Western. His textbook is an overview of policing that addresses most current issues.
"We have chiefs who teach in a master's program that requested a copy of it," McCamey said, referring to his book. "It has several strong chapters on administration and management," he added.
Junior colleges have adapted his book into their classrooms and McCamey uses it as a vital text in his own classes as well.
The "overall view is issues of policing. It covers a number of them today ... use of force, racial profiling," McCamey said.
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