Category Archives: Exhibits and Special Programs

UIC Library exhibits and events

Collaborative research and the future of e-books examined in presentations August 14

The UIC Library’s Lectures and Forums Committee is hosting two presentations by professors Karen Schmidt and Wendy Shelburne on Friday, August 14, 2009.
The morning presentation will given by Professor Karen Schmidt and Professor Wendy Shelburne on Joys and Sorrows: How to Make Collaborative Research Work from 10:00 a.m. –11:30 a.m., in Room 303 of the [...]

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UIC Library at Printers Row Lit Fest June 6-7

The UIC Library will join thousands of book sellers, literacy advocates, authors, and readers at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest on June 6-7.  Visit location K1-3 to get information about the Library’s collections and services.
The Library will  host two book signings at its booth on Sunday beginning at 12:30 pm.  Eileen Tanner, UIC’s [...]

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Images of Research exhibit showcases graduate research

The 2009 Image of Research exhibit shows the work of UIC graduate students who have created an image and a brief statement to describe their research. The work of eighteen students is on display in the Daley Library from April 16 through May 10.
The Image of Research is an annual interdisciplinary exhibit competition sponsored [...]

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Celebrate National Library Week and National Library Workers Day

The week of April 12-18 is 2009’s National Library Week. This observance celebrates the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities nationwide.
On April 14, libraries also celebrate National Library Workers Day, a time to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. The day’s theme is Libraries Work [...]

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Women in medicine exhibit open house March 19

The Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago is hosting an open house for Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an interactive, multimedia traveling exhibition that honors the lives and achievements of American women in medicine – past and present. The open house takes place on Thursday, March 19, 2009, 3:00-4:30 pm. [...]

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Women in medicine featured in multimedia exhibit

The Library of the Health Sciences (LHS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an interactive, multimedia traveling exhibition that honors the lives and achievements of American women in medicine – past and present. The exhibit is on display at LHS, 1750 W. [...]

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Fight School Segregation! exhibit documents movement to improve Chicago schools

Drawing on documents and photographs from the Chicago Urban League Records and other collections in UIC’s Special Collections and Archives Department, the exhibit “Fight School Segregation! Building a Protest Movement in Chicago,” features the movement for racial integration and equality within the Chicago Public Schools.
Between 1957 and 1966, civil rights activists, teachers, parents, [...]

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First Monday Podcasts and UIC Library celebrate first Open Access Day

The Internet journal First Monday and the UIC Library mark the first Open Access Day, October 14, 2008, with First Monday Podcast’s launch of a series on the topic of openness.
In the first of five episodes, Chief Podcast editors AJ Hannah and Joy Austria examine The State of Openness and the meaning of openness in [...]

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Chicago Area Medical Archivists October 24 symposium showcases surgical history in Chicago

The Chicago Area Medical Archivists seventh annual history symposium, scheduled for October 24, at UIC’s Library of the Health Sciences, features three presentations on significant medical events in Chicago history.
Marlene Fishman, B.S.E., will speak on The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary: Celebrating 150 Years of Patient Care, Research and Education. Sidney Blair, M.D., Fellowship [...]

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Library celebrates new book on Century of Progress October 20

The UIC Library and the University of Illinois Press celebrate the publication of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress, by Cheryl R. Ganz, in UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library, Monday, October 20, 2008, 3:00-5:00 pm. The program, book signing, reception will take place in the Reserve Reading Room (1st [...]

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