These extraordinary images are on view outside of the library administration office on the 2nd floor.

This exhibit was made possible by the generosity of Sidney J. Blair, M.D. in partnership with the University Library. Please call 312/996-8977 for information and directions.

The English in Print exhibit features 50 early imprints from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The selections of 15th-17th centuries show the development of format, typography, grammar, and spelling.

Also on display are seven 16th and 17th century books about the medical sciences and natural history from Special Collections at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago.

The exhibit was made possible through the generous support of the Caxton Club and can be viewed  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturday October 10 and 24, and November 14, 12:30-4:30 p.m. For information and directions, call 312/996-2742.

All titles listed in the Journals page now have records in the library catalog.

Jane Darcovich, Visual Resources Librarian, and a staff of graduate assistants identify or scan images for use in classes and maintain a collection of slides and an online database of images. The Visual Resources library supplements other image collections available to the UIC community such as ARTstor, the Saskia Art Images Collection, and UIC’s digital holdings in CARLI Digital Collections.

The normal hours of the Visual Resources library are Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; patrons should phone ahead before coming to use the materials (312 413 2464) or email darcovic@uic.edu.

Electronic Resources-alphabetical list will be Databases A-Z

Electronic Resources-subject list will be Research Guides (Home)

Health Sciences Electronic Gateway will be General Health Sciences Research Guide

Electronic Reference Shelf will be Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and More

Among many other topics, the collection documents: the consolidation of the Chicago Circle and Medical Center campuses; the construction and administration of the new University of Illinois Hospital; and a controversial plan to merge the University of Illinois and Cook County Hospitals.

A finding aid for the collection is available online at: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/lhsc/ead/003-17-01f.html

Researchers can use this collection in the Special Collections Department at the Library of the Health Science-Chicago. Please call 312.996.8977 to schedule an appointment.

ArchiveGrid enables researchers to identify original sources relevant to their interests, cites where the original materials are located, and describes the contents of collections. Researchers can find contact information to prepare for and arrange visits to repositories or to order copies of materials.

From your UIC account, access ArchiveGrid directly. Researchers using their personal ISP should use the proxy.

The records include about 400 cartons of correspondence, research papers, photographs, artifacts and news clippings dating from 1950 through 2000, including many materials from the civil rights era. Other records date back to the league’s start in 1916.

“Being selected for a Save America’s Treasures grant confirms the value of this collection not only to Chicago and the African Americans who migrated here, but also to the entire nation,” said Mary Case, head of the university library.

James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, said, “Priceless information about the equal rights movement and the work of our organization will be available for generations to come. This itself is a historic event and certainly a cause for celebration.”

The Chicago Urban League’s original mission was to help African Americans find jobs and housing and to help those who had migrated from the rural South adapt to urban life. Later, the league became involved in the labor, civil rights and urban renewal movements, largely through casework on behalf of individuals who complained of discrimination by employers, landlords, neighbors and service employees.

Highlights of the league’s collection:

• a 1916 annual report noting “firsts” among job placements of African Americans: a social worker at Cook County Hospital, a foreman at the B&O Railroad, and a traveler’s aid worker at the railroad stations. The report also praised a door-to-door campaign by women league members to promote citizenship among new arrivals;
• results of a 1950 national survey of cab companies asking if they hired African-American drivers;
• a chain of correspondence from 1950 detailing harassment of a group of ministers and churchgoers, vandalism of their car, and lax police response at a public beach;
• photos of Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young at rallies during their 1966 visit;
• photos of a voter registration drive during the 1976 U.S. bicentennial;
• a 1974 press release and photos documenting the case of a woman paying $210 a month for a substandard four-room apartment on the South Side.

Under the grant, the library’s special collections staff will preserve the records to archival standards, make them available to researchers and present an online exhibition of documents when the project is finished.

The UIC library received a previous Save America’s Treasures grant in 1999 to preserve 6,500 photographs from the Jane Addams Memorial Collection.

The Park Service administers the Save America’s Treasures grants in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. This year, 61 grants were awarded from 337 applications nationally for museum collections, archives, architectural restoration and art conservation.