The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana (LHSU) will be making some minor adjustments to our website. These small changes are being made in anticipation of a planned cutover to CMS (Content Management Software) for the whole UIC Library website. This larger change will likely occur before the end of 2008. In the [...]
It’s that time of year again, when medical students can enjoy hands on experience with plastic skulls at the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/resources/anatomy/skulls.shtml
The following procedures apply to their check-out:
*** Skulls are LIBRARY USE ONLY (no exceptions).
*** They circulate for NINETY MINUTES and can be renewed.
*** Medical Students must leave their I-Cards (and [...]
The computer network in the Medical Sciences Building on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus will be down Friday morning as a series of upgrades take place. Users will not have internet/network access for much of the morning. This includes the Wi-Fi network, although the Wi-Fi network should be down for less time [...]
By lnaru | Published:
March 13, 2008
The UIC Library presents a program in conjunction with the city-wide Festival of Maps. on Thursday March 20, 2008, from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, in Special Collections, Richard J. Daley Library, 3rd Floor South, 801 S. Morgan.
Speakers are Robert W. Karrow, Jr., Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps, The Newberry Library [...]
By lnaru | Published:
March 6, 2008
Jennifer Eileen Knievel, Assistant Professor and Humanities Reference and Instruction Librarian at Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, will make two presentations at the University of Illinois at Chicago, talking about research in the library field and information literacy.
Prof. Knievel will be on the UIC campus on Thursday, March 13, 2008. [...]
The Lexis Nexis Academic electronic resource provides full-text transcripts to dozens of radio and television news programs. Coverage is international and includes Al Jazeera, CQ Congressional Testimony, Official Kremlin International News Broadcasts, CNN, MSNBC, Jim Lehrer, Fox News Network and NPR.
The Complete List
ABC News Now
ABC News Transcripts
ABC Transcripts (Australia)
Al-Jazeera
American Public Media
Burrelle’s Transcripts
CBS News Transcripts
Channel NewsAsia
CNBC/Dow [...]
The Media Resources Center at the University of California at Berkeley has made available online a 1965 debate between the late William F. Buckley and the late author, James Baldwin. Buckley was a national figure from the time he founded the conservative “National Review” in 1955 at age 29.
Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology and the first employee hired at Google said: “My guess is about 300 years until
computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search,” says Craig Silverstein. “But we can make slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we’ll get there.”
Full Text Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml
In other [...]