Beginning in 1989, Warsaw experienced an intense period of design and construction of retail, commercial and residential buildings. Changing conditions within Poland and the availability of investment capital transformed the face of the capital city. The number of projects invigorated creative architectural design, and the buildings sparked wide interest and varying reactions of respect, admiration, and controversy.

The 20 buildings featured in this exhibit are among those that received awards in various competitions, many by the “Life in Architecture” competition, organized jointly by the city authorities and the editors of Architektura Murator, a leading architectural journal. Some were financed by public funding, some with private support.

The exhibit was organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago under the direction of Mr. Mariusz Gbiorczyk, Polish Consul.

Exhibit panels are on display on the first and second floors of the Daley Library. Visitors can see the exhibit all hours the Library is open.

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century the Alternative Press Index, a biannual subject index to over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world. Librarians consider the API to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available today.

D’Adamo will relate the Alternative Press Index project to the rise and fall of the underground press in the 1960s and 1970s, the development of radical intellectual periodical publishing since the 1970s, projects of media criticism, and the development of the web-based Indymedia movement. D’Adamo will also discuss issues of social responsibility in librarianship.

Visitors can view a Special Collections exhibit of early English books and a display that chronicles the history of the UIC mascot to our present-day Sparky D Dragon. Staff will explain mysterious parts of the library such as microforms and the film collection that circulates to i-card holders.

The open house includes food and prizes for a scavenger hunt.

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.

Scholarly Publishing Unbound
Panelists include:
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information
Michael Tanner, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIC
Robert Bruegmann, Professor, Art History, UIC
Barbara Risman, Professor, Sociology, UIC
Moderator: Mary Case, University Librarian, UIC
When : Thursday October 22, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Where: 713 SCE

For decades, scholars have advanced in their fields by publishing in print — whether in peer-reviewed books or articles in refereed journals — or by exhibiting and performing in prestigious venues. Today, the possibilities of online “publication” in open access journals, unbundled articles, vast data sets, Web-based exhibits, and other forms of electronic dissemination challenge the well-established, bounded system. The rate of change varies among different disciplines. Young faculty who seek promotion and tenure face choices their predecessors did not have to consider. Senior scholars, committed to quality and traditions in their fields, may find themselves forced to rethink publishing and standards of achievement.

This panel will explore the current state of scholarly publishing and the prospects for the future.

Lunch will follow the panel discussion.

Students for Open Access present Award Winning Sparky Videos
When: Thursday October 22, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Where: 713 SCE

Fame and fortune! In 2008, five UIC students won the $1,000 Grand Prize in the Sparky Awards, a video contest to promote the value of sharing information. The award-winning students will talk about the idea behind their video and how their views on information access shaped the video. Professor Nancy John will discuss how students can enter this year’s contest and describe how the Sparky Awards can be made part of a course syllabus.

To see a picture of the winning UIC team and link to their video, see the Sparky Awards Web site.

So you want to start a journal…Launching and sustaining a scholarly journal
When: Friday October 23, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Where: Reserve Reading Room, Daley Library

The possibility of publishing on the Web has allowed new models for scholarly journals, even as traditional journals remain central to the academic enterprise. Five academics with extensive experience in journal publishing provide a range of perspectives on launching and sustaining scholarly journals.

Panel includes:
Judith Gardiner, Professor, English and Gender & Women’s Studies, UIC; member of the editorial collective of Feminist Studies
Mark Mattaini; Associate Professor, Jane Adams College of Social Work, UIC; editor of Behavior and Social Issues
Brooke Shipley; Professor, Math Statistics and Computer Science, UIC; editorial board member for Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society; Homology, Homotopy, and Applications; Theory and Applications of Categories; Topology and its Applications
Neil Smalheiser; Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UIC; editor of Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
Ed Valauskas, Lecturer, endowed Follett Chair (2005-7), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University; chief editor and founder of First Monday

Light refreshments will be offered.

A recording of So you want to start a journal…Launching and sustaining a scholarly journal is available via eRooms.

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.

Wasik, a former special projects editor for Consumers Digest magazine, has won 18 awards for his columns and investigative reporting, including the National Press Club award for Consumer Journalism. He has contributed to Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Modern Maturity, Parade, Smart Money, Popular Science, Health, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Barron’s, The Chicago Tribune, and newspapers across North America.

John Wasik at UIC
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 4 pm
Daley Library, First Floor
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607

This event is sponsored by the University of Illinois Alumni Association and the UIC Library and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available. For more information or if you need accommodation for a disability, please email lnaru@uic.edu or telephone 312 413 0394.

Challenged or banned titles include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Color Purple, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and hundreds of others criticized for their political or religious viewpoint, offensive language, and other reasons.

The American Library Association leads this annual celebration of banned books to emphasize the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

The Special Collections and University Archives Department is pleased to continue its support of the Fair and National History Day, and has identified collections that will contribute to the primary source research for this year’s theme of “Innovation in History.” For a downloadable PDF list of sources, click here.