UIC Library News

The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will cutover to a new Interlibrary Loan service later this month. This new service should offer significant improvements. We will be using the same software (ILLiad) that is currently used by the UIUC Library so you may notice some similarities.
When you need an item such as […]

The UIC Library now subscribes to the online database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
The database is organized around document projects, each posing a new interpretative question […]

Starting on January 1, 2008, InfoRetriever with InfoPOEMs will be renamed Essential Evidence Plus. As a result, if you are currently using InfoRetriever on your handheld device and/or Windows PC, you must re-register it. If you fail to re-register before January 15, the program will no longer run.
For Automatic Re-registration
Unless you […]

The UIC Library will introduce a new interlibrary loan service in January 2008. The name of the existing interlibrary loan system–MyILL@UIC–will remain the same, but users will notice significant improvements.
After completing a brief online registration form, interlibrary loan users at all five UIC sites will be able to create new requests, view outstanding requests and […]

The UIC Library’s Special Collections department has launched an online interpretive exhibit about how the residents of seven Chicago settlement houses worked to improve the lives of people living in poor neighborhoods during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The exhibit includes 100 photographs and documents from Henry Booth House, Bethlehem-Howell Neighborhood Center, Off-The-Street Club, Marcy […]