UIC Library News

The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago .
In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Neurosurgery, led the pioneering surgery […]

The winning entries in the Image of Research, a competition sponsored by UIC’s Graduate College and the University Library, will be displayed in the Daley Library May 2 – 30.
The Image of Research is an opportunity for a graduate student to create an image with aesthetic appeal that expresses his or her research. Each […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

The UIC Library is hosting a reception for the opening of its exhibit, Under Study: Maps and Photographs of Chicago’s Near West Side, on Tuesday, December 11, from 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM. The reception is open to the public and takes place in the Daley Library Special Collections Department (3rd floor south).
The […]

Libraries celebrate Banned Books Week every year and hold events to highlight free speech and the right of each individual to read all viewpoints on all issues. This year, Banned Books Week will be observed Sept. 29 through Oct. 6.
One event in Chicago is the Banned Books Week Read-Out! at the Pioneer Plaza (on […]

In recent years, libraries have taken on a range of roles and responsibilities in the provision of e-government services and resources. John Carlo Bertot, professor and associate director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at Florida State University, addresses this topic in the UIC Library’s Nakata Lecture on October 25. Bertot’s lecture, Libraries […]

David Carr discusses his research on cultural institutions as public forums in a democracy
Wednesday, Aug. 29
12:15-1:15 p.m., followed by brief discussion
UIC Institute for the Humanities
Lower level-Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan
David Carr, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “The Promise of Cultural […]

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 […]