UIC Library News

Library patrons who use the University’s Wireless Network must upgrade their Odyssey Client to Version 4.5 by February 1st.After that date it will be impossible to use the University’s Wireless Network without this upgrade. This upgrade only affects Microsoft Windows users.
The new version may be downloaded from ACCC’s E-Sales Store (netid […]

This is a reminder to all faculty and researchers that because UIC is a BioMed Central supporter member, you receive a 15% discount on the article processing charge when you publish your research in any one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Over 140 online journals are published by BioMed Central covering […]

More than 700 historic photographs from six Chicago settlement houses will be digitized and posted online under a $20,000 grant awarded to the UIC Library from the Illinois State Library.
An exhibit of 100 selected photographs, supporting documents, interpretive text, and guides to each collection will be made available on the home page of the library’s […]

UICCAT and I-Share, the Library’s and CARLI’s catalogs, were taken offline late last Friday, and restored to service on Saturday morning. The disruption in service was necessary to make changes that CARLI believes will solve problems with searching and slow performance of the catalogs.
For now, search sessions are still set to timeout after 5 minutes […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education CampusWide, the online service of the Chronicle of Higher Education, is now available to the UIC campus. Chronicle CampusWide brings you the complete contents of The Chronicle, with new issues on Monday mornings, as well as Web-only daily updates, searchable archives from January 1989 to the present, RSS news feeds […]

Now on exhibit in the 1st floor lobby at the Richard Daley Library is One Hundred Years of Thinking I Can! A Brief History of the “Little Engine” Story.
The Little Engine that Could is one of the most popular and famous children’s books of all time. Published by Platt & Munk, it has […]

We are pleased to announce that S & P Netadvantage is available online to UIC users. This new resource, updated daily by Standard & Poor’s Inc., now adds valuable data to UIC’s business information: reports on industries, including trends, key ratios and analysis.

Program featuring Charles Harrison and Victor Margolin
Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 5:00 pm
Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 S. Morgan
Join designer Charles Harrison and Prof. Victor Margolin for a program about Harrison’s industrial design career and the role of an academic library in preserving the history of graphic design.
Charles Harrison’s career illustrates the intersection […]

The papers of allergist Max Samter, MD (1908-1999) are now available for research in the University Archives. The collection documents Samter’s pioneering work in the field of immunology, as well as his experience practicing medicine in Nazi and wartime Germany.
Max Samter began his medical career in 1931 as an intern at the Charite […]

In early December access to the server on which the UIC Library News blog resides malfunctioned. Although the server was quickly rebooted, there were severe problems which prevented us from updating the newsletter. The News-blog has now been moved to newer equipment and is again operational.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have […]