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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
UIC users no longer require an individual subscription in order to receive Academe Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s e-mailed daily alert. As part of UIC’s Chronicle subscription, anyone can sign up for this popular report. Each daily alert summarizes the latest events in higher education as well as all the news, career [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 & [...]