Monthly Archives: April 2007

New Playaway Titles

The library has acquired several new Playaway titles. Playaways are self-contained audio books that can be checked out for three weeks. Listen to a Playaway audio book while driving, exercising, or just relaxing! Playaway ebooks have a universal headphone jack that will accommodate most headphones, earbuds or portable speakers. Recently added titles include:

Lovely Bones [...]

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Komen Collection Display

In honor of the 2007 Race for the Cure, the library is showcasing the LHS Peoria Komen Breast Cancer Collection. Through a long-standing relationship with the Peoria Memorial Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, LHS Peoria has developed a unique collection of breast cancer resources in support of area physicians, researchers and patients. [...]

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New resource: AccessScience

AccessScience is now available to provide UIC users with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. In print, this encyclopedia has 20 volumes; the online encyclopedia also includes frequent updates and supplemental data.
You can find links for on-campus and off-campus access in UICCAT [...]

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Building the Future City: Past Visions

A special exhibit now on view in the first floor lobby of Daley Library is “Building the Future City: Past Visions.” The exhibit features maps, plans, books, and photographs documenting past visions and plans for the City of Chicago.

Highlights include Burnham’s Plan of Chicago (1902), construction of Wacker Drive, and [...]

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Don’t Throw It Away Workshop

Do you have any old files? Are records on your desk or on your computer taking up space? What’s the important stuff” What should be saved? What can you get rid of?
If this sounds like you, please join UIC Professor Peg Strobel and UIC Assistant Special Collections Librarian Valerie Harris for [...]

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The Medical Letter online is now available

The UIC Library is pleased to provide access to the electronic products published by The Medical Letter, Inc., of New Rochelle, New York. Readers can sign up to receive the E-table of contents on a regular basis.
The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (1988-present) provides critical evaluations of drugs for physicians and other members [...]

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Congratulations to Sandy DeGroote!

Sandy De Groote, Assistant Health Sciences Librarian (Peoria), has been accepted into the Program Track of the Illinois Immersion program. This is a week-long course provided by the ACRL’s Institute for Information Literacy.

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Announcing GeoScience World

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has recently been purchased by the Library for UIC users. GSW is a database consisting of 34 geoscientific journals and related information sponsored by a group of leading geoscientific organizations. A good way to start your search is in GeoRef (through CSA Illumina), a bibliographic index to [...]

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Research Honor

According to a recently-published analysis of library and information science literature, Professor Stephen J. Wiberley, Jr. Bibliographer for the Social Sciences at UIC Library was one of the top-cited researchers during the ten-year period studied.
“Analysis of a Decade in Library Literature: 1994-2004” by Kelly Blessinger and Michele Frasier in College & [...]

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